How to Use leukemia in a Sentence

leukemia

noun
  • Acute leukemia treated can still kill you.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • Here's what to know about acute myeloid leukemia and how it's treated.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • One Match helps match leukemia patients with stem cell donors.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • Te’o was then led to believe that Kekua had died of leukemia.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But that didn't change the fact that their son, then just over 1 year old, had leukemia.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Tsarwhas added some context for the name of this form of leukemia.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What are the symptoms and treatment for acute myeloid leukemia?
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Acutis died of leukemia nearly two decades ago at just 15 years old.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • These include types of leukemia and lymphoma.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The cause was acute myeloid leukemia, a rare cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Raisa, his wife of forty-six years, had died, of leukemia, in 1999.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The course of treatment for leukemia is never simple or short.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Emilio, their only child, died of leukemia two years later, in the arms of his mom and dad.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Long-term exposure is known to cause leukemia and nose and throat cancer.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 6 July 2018
  • His childhood best friend, Naz, died after a long fight with leukemia.
    — USA Today, 22 June 2020
  • Long-term exposure to high amounts of benzene in the air is known to cause leukemia.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Vitale stood up and put both hands on the leukemia survivor’s shoulders.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Tungseth's father was an opera singer who died of leukemia in 2023.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Silas was just 6 years old when he was diagnosed with T-cell leukemia.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2025
  • He had also been diagnosed with leukemia at the time of his passing.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The 3-year-old son of Strauss’ best friend has been diagnosed with leukemia.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • His son Joseph said the death was from complications of leukemia.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Benzene has also been linked to leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
    — David Koenig, Twin Cities, 9 July 2019
  • Metchie is a big talent who has not broken out yet, as leukemia kept him off the field for his rookie year.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Cotton with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and his father with a type of leukemia.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
  • When White was 10, her brother's friend, who was 27, died of leukemia.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • News of her death comes after Beine had been open online about her journey with acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The scenario that haunted them had happened to a 3-year-old Amish boy with leukemia.
    — Mark Johnson, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Sadly, Draper died of leukemia a year after the movie was released.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026

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