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What does leukemia mean?

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Noun
  1. A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues.
  2. (countable) Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues.
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Childhood exposure is linked to an increased risk for leukemia and thyroid cancer.
A teen boy, recently diagnosed with leukemia, retold the story of why he was hospitalized from his platelets' point of view.
In people with leukemia, the bone marrow produces a large number of abnormal white blood cells.
By creating analogs of nucleotides, she and her research group made drugs that treat acute leukemia and kidney plant rejection.
No consistent chromosome aberrations have been identified in basophilic leukemia.
In fact, chronic myelogenous leukemia is the only leukemic process that is associated with thrombocytosis.

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