The word "leukemia" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a form of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. For example, "His doctor diagnosed him with acute lymphocytic leukemia."
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Other researchers at the Chicago meeting reported early trial results for novel ADCs in prostate cancer, lymphoma and leukemia.
NOVARTIS spent nearly 15 years seeking a patent in India for Glivec, a medicine for chronic myeloid leukemia.
In 2006 Butcher died of leukemia.
Thrombocytopenia is associated with such blood diseases as aplastic anemia and leukemia and is attributed to impaired production of platelets.
Examination of the blood cells of cattle may reveal abnormal lymphocytic cells characteristic of leukemia.
The scientific analysis of Ladislas' skeleton in 1987 88 established that he died of juvenile leukemia, however.
Chronic myelogenous leukemia, which has a peak incidence among adults in their 40s, may remain quiescent for long periods before symptoms such as weight loss, low fever, and weakness develop.
Myelogenous leukemia affects granulocytes and monocytes, white blood cells that destroy bacteria and some parasites.
Nachdenken über Christa T. (1968; The Quest for Christa T). concerns an ordinary woman who questions her socialist beliefs and life in a socialist state and then dies prematurely of leukemia.
The immune response itself may become deficient in human diseases involving white cells, such as multiple myeloma, macroglobulinemia, Hodgkin's disease, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
