What is "leukaemia"

Usage examples of "leukaemia".

The papers had been urgent--reports on a case of leukaemia he had been consulted about, but the patient, if she remembered aright, had been in an East End hospital in exactly the opposite direction.

The number of years a child diagnosed with leukaemia can expect to live has been increasing progressively, year by year.

Clotilde, knowing that Mrs Duckworth was suffering from myeloid leukaemia and had a not very hopeful future, reflected, as she so often did when he was on the ward, that he was not only very good at his job, he was good at handling people too, passing on some of his own calm and never seeming to be in a hurry.

When she washed she sprinkled her body with salt, muttering something about catching leukaemia in the cities and that her white cells were eating up her red cells.

A boyhood friend of his own age was afflicted with leukaemia and there was much doubt about his survival.

There was a photograph of her looking radiant and concerned, with a group of young leukaemia victims.

As a child, Adrian had had leukaemia and, although he had recovered, he still tended to catch every passing bug.

Disneyland for a young leukaemia patient, her mother and a registered nurse.

Others are working on heart disease, leukaemia and other chronic illnesses.

They seem to have had no case history of illness beyond a suggestion of an operation, of someone coming to London to consult some medical authority, a possiblility of cancer, of leukaemia, something of that kind, some future that they could not face.

Little Ella Frances, of Prince Street, Polwarth, Edinburgh, died of leukaemia at the age of four-and-a half, just under twenty-seven years ago.