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  • noun Plural form of leukaemia.

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Examples

  • This can lead to the formation of tumours of white blood cells, called leukaemias, if the stem cells doing the repopulating have cancer-causing mutations.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • This can lead to the formation of tumours of white blood cells, called leukaemias, if the stem cells doing the repopulating have cancer-causing mutations.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • This can lead to the formation of tumours of white blood cells, called leukaemias, if the stem cells doing the repopulating have cancer-causing mutations.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Aspartame induces lymphomas and leukaemias in rats.

    Alcohol James Killus 2007

  • The reason for the development of the leukaemias was instructive.

    That's another fine mess you've made Jonathan! - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • That is, sulphur mustard causes cancers, leukaemias and birth defects.

    Daimnation!: Pilger's staggering dishonesty 2003

  • "I don't know a great deal about it I've never seen a case, though I've nursed one or two lymphoblastic leukaemias and they did rather well."

    Last April Fair Neels, Betty 1980

  • John Dick, a Canadian biologist working in Toronto, postulated that a small population of cells in human leukaemias also possess this infinite self-renewing behaviour.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Money raised is used by the Leukaemia Foundation to fund free services to support patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.

    Shaving Stuff Derek Markham 2010

  • The abnormalities could increase the risk of childhood cancer, especially leukaemias and lymphomas, according to the study published in the Open Paediatric Medicine Journal.

    Home 2010

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