How to Use myelogenous leukemia in a Sentence

myelogenous leukemia

noun
  • A couple of months later, she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • Druker’s research led to Gleevec, which treats chronic myelogenous leukemia.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
  • In March 2017, she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The underlying primary cause of death was recorded as acute myelogenous leukemia, a type of blood and bone marrow cancer.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The cause was acute myelogenous leukemia, a form of blood cancer, said a niece Alison Tweedie-Perry.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • The primary type, which was listed as a sequential underlying cause, was determined to be acute myelogenous leukemia.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • At only 8 weeks old, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of leukemia known as acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The existing therapies for chronic myelogenous leukemia were priced similarly.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The life lessons taught by his dad Vincent, who died last November on his 80th birthday from chronic myelogenous leukemia, will always stay with Stonestreet.
    — Julie Jordan, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Credit that to plunging sales of Revlimid and other drugs such as Abraxane (to treat a variety of cancers) and Sprycel (to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia).
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Druker and the other chronic myelogenous leukemia experts warned in 2013 that Gleevec was setting an unsustainable example in health care.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • One of the early beneficiaries of these affirmative action policies was a black woman, one of six siblings born to a single mother and raised in poverty and who died when only 47 years old from acute myelogenous leukemia.
    — Uche Blackstock, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The primary type, which was listed as a sequential underlying cause, was acute myelogenous leukemia, and the actor had also been been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, according to his death certificate obtained by People.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • There was an elevated trend for oral cancers, thyroid cancer, acute myelogenous leukemia, disorders of the blood, B-cell lymphomas and a certain kind of bladder cancer called nonpapillary transitional cell bladder carcinoma.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The event raised $3 million for cancer research and was held in honor of Gabrielle Rich Aouad, the late daughter of songwriter and foundation co-founder Denise Rich, who passed away from acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at 27 years old.
    — Caché McClay, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025

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