What's the difference between leukaemia and leukemia?
Leukaemia
Definition:
(n.) Leucocythaemia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
(2) These controls consisted of normal individuals, patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) or untransfused patients with SAA.
(3) The differentiation of monocytes was evaluated quantitatively by electron microscopy and was analyzed in relation to the clinical features of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
(4) Three of the four leukaemic cell lines (JVM-2, JVM-3 and JVM-13) were induced by EBV + TPA and derived from prolymphocytic leukaemia (PLL) cases; the fourth (JVM-14) originated from a case of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) with increased percentage of prolymphocytes whose cells were stimulated in vitro with EBV.
(5) 5 heavily pretreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma resistant to alkylating agents were treated with low-dose cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C).
(6) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
(7) One boy, given radiotherapy and cytostatic drugs for a rhabdomyosarcoma died nine years later of acute leukaemia.
(8) Among patients whose treatment included chemotherapy (CT), with or without radiotherapy (RT), the risk of acute and non-lymphocytic leukaemia (A + NLL) was significantly increased (O = 5, E = 0.18, RR = 27.8, 95% CI 9.0-64.8, P less than 0.001).
(9) The median survival time was 12 months for MDS and 3 months for acute leukaemia.
(10) Usually the leukaemia diagnosis was preceded by a striking pancytopenic phase, bone-marrow aspiration being more useful diagnostically than biopsy.
(11) It is concluded that carriers of the delta F508 mutation may have an increased risk of developing acute myeloid leukaemia.
(12) The nature of the cells generating the early chemiluminescence (CL) response after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) was studied in six patients; five transplanted for acute leukaemia and one for multiple myeloma.
(13) We studied dysplastic features in peripheral blood polymorphs from 80 patients with acute leukaemia.
(14) A more aggressive treatment with cytostatic drugs is suggested in the progressive form of the disease of younger patients and in patients with overt acute leukaemia.
(15) The development of acute non-lymphoblastic leukaemia (ANLL) or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) secondary to treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) is well known.
(16) Persistent infection with parvovirus (B19) causing severe anaemia has been reported in patients with leukaemia and congenital immunodeficiency.
(17) Methotrexate(MTX)-resistant human promyelocytic-leukaemia cells (HL-60) derived from MTX-sensitive cells have a 20-fold increase in dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) activity as compared with the sensitive cells.
(18) All of the patients with ophthalmic manifestations had either bone marrow relapse or central nervous system leukaemia.
(19) We conclude that routine cancer registration data require extensive validation before they can be used for epidemiological purposes; case-control studies can overcome some of the methodological problems involved in investigating apparent leukaemia clusters; and further environmental investigations are needed in two post code districts of Fife.
(20) The effect of reserpine was studied alone and in combination with anticancer drugs on human chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) cells.