The word "leukaemia" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. For example: "My aunt was recently diagnosed with leukaemia."
How about we talk about his leukaemia instead?
Spall, after all, had to skip the 1996 festival after a diagnosis of leukaemia left him all but in his grave.
It's now seven years since Hütter and his team at the Charité hospital in Berlin performed a groundbreaking stem cell transplant on a 40 year old HIV-positive patient, suffering from leukaemia.
I had acute myeloid leukaemia and it was very close indeed, they caught it just in time.
Life was just about manageable until the youngest boy was diagnosed with leukaemia.
"Mostly breast and thyroid, also some leukaemia, colon, lung".
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1984 compared those in the fallout area with other Mormons and found leukaemia levels five times higher.
In the early 1960s, multiple cases of childhood leukaemia and adult cancers began to appear, a shocking novelty because Mormons, who shun alcohol and tobacco, typically have low cancer rates.
My wife, Jean, died of leukaemia in 1973, and both my parents died two years earlier.
In April more than 100 cancer specialists wrote an editorial in Blood, a medical journal, criticising the cost of drugs for chronic myeloid leukaemia.
The original version of the adverts warned that, without breastmilk, children ran a heightened risk of leukaemia, diabetes and respiratory diseases.
