Sentence examples for leukemic from inspiring English sources

Clinical manifestations include anemia, thrombocytopenia (deficit of blood platelets), and infiltration of various organs of the body with leukemic cells.

In 1956 Thomas performed the first successful bone marrow transplant between two humans: a leukemic patient and his identical twin.

Lymphoma is characterized by malignant tumours of lymphocytes that are usually not associated with a leukemic blood picture.

The Agios drug, instead of killing the leukemic cells — immature blood cells gone haywire — coaxes them into maturing into functioning blood cells.

The resulting treatment was a one-two punch: ATRA triggered the leukemic cells to mature, whereupon they became vulnerable to the second drug, which destroyed them.

They were the Lowly Browns from the outset, setting all the wrong records: first in last-place finishes; leukemic attendance that reached a nadir, in 1933, when thirty-three fans paid to watch a home game; so financially strapped that scuffed, worn, and torn baseballs were put in play because the club couldn't afford the regulation number of fresh ones.

"Of particular interest were the ex vivo studies of primary AML blast cells from patients recently treated at Toronto, where all 10 samples of leukemic cells responded to exposure to elesclomol.

Combined, the two agents might kill the leukemic cells in the marrow, but they also kill healthy blood cells, causing patients to enter a limbo with an "empty marrow," during which we doctors used to pray that their normal cells would regrow.

Within weeks, the leukemic-cell count in his bone marrow had fallen from fifteen per cent to four per cent, and his counts of healthy blood cells improved markedly; he has been in complete remission for four months.

Several years ago, Ms. Ephron learned that she had myelodysplastic syndrome, a pre-leukemic condition, but she kept the illness a secret from all but a few intimates and continued to lead a busy, sociable life.

Dr. Chapman, who had lived with a pre-leukemic condition for a decade, had been in declining health in recent months, his son Douglass Chapman said.