How to Use leukemia in a Sentence

leukemia

noun

• Their son, Cole, died in May of acute myeloid leukemia at age 11.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• Te’o was then led to believe that Kekua had died of leukemia.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
• Her cause of death, according to The New York Times, was leukemia.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2023
• Among the group, the lawsuit says, was a 12-year-old girl who died of leukemia in Pakistan in March.
  — Dan Lamothe, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• When White was 10, her brother's friend, who was 27, died of leukemia.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• One Match helps match leukemia patients with stem cell donors.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Then that summer, another big blow: the start of a long battle with leukemia that pushed him to the brink.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Cotton with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and his father with a type of leukemia.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• The cause was a recurrence of leukemia, with which she was first diagnosed in 2012.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• This approach does not translate well for T cell acute leukemia.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Her friend Kathy Lette, an Australian novelist, said the cause was leukemia.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2022
• For fludarabine, used in leukemia, the shortage grew from 11% to 45% four months later.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 5 Oct. 2023
• There are three main types of blood cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, all of which affect the body's blood cells.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• This 2012 novel centers around two teenage boys who try to make a movie about their female friend with leukemia.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• In 2012, gene therapy cured a girl named Emily who had leukemia.
  — AZCentral.com, 26 June 2023
• The younger Dunkley was about 3 when he was diagnosed with leukemia, his sister said.
  — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Gas stoves leak benzene, a carcinogen that can cause leukemia.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 23 Jan. 2023
• The leukemia diagnosis for his youngest son, 4-year-old Khalid, came early last year.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• All that sacrifice to save the boy, first from leukemia, then from the Hunters, then from the Infected, only for one little bite to end it all.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• The lead actor, Vegar Hoel, who was also the co-writer, passed away last year from leukemia.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2022
• That’s usually used for hard-to-treat blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Gilbert Aguirre was first diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in May 2015.
  — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
• Carroll died from leukemia Jan. 24 at her home with her family.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• Her death, at her home in London, was announced in a statement by the literary agency RCW, which said the cause was leukemia.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• Topalian, 30, was among the first patients to use biomarker testing when she was first diagnosed with leukemia at age four.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
• So too is continuing to play on for Kieran Whall, a 3-year-old in town battling leukemia.
  — Jake Levin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• No cause of death was given, but Aycox revealed in March 2021 that she had been diagnosed with leukemia.
  — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• When my stepfather died of leukemia, his hospice nurse told us exactly how many pills not to take.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• And often, as was the case with imatinib, the $800 leukemia drug, the discounts still don’t make the cost of a regular prescription affordable for the consumer.
  — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• But deep down, Coronell Uribe, who was diagnosed with leukemia at 16 and just weeks ago reached the five-year mark from the end of treatment, sensed that something was not quite right.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024