Good evidence for a significant role exists for acute myeloidleukaemiaand myeloma, but the role in solid tumours remains unclear.From theCambridge English Corpus
During this latter stage, differentiation is apparently blocked, and the clonal, nonfunctional, proliferating blast cells accumulate to cause a clinical disease similar to acuteleukaemia.From theCambridge English Corpus
Removal ofleukaemiainhibitory factor from the medium causes these cells to differentiate into embryoid bodies.From theCambridge English Corpus
Malignant blood disorders with associated anaemia, such as myelodysplasia andleukaemia, become more frequent with advancing age.From theCambridge English Corpus
He fought bravely against hisleukaemiaand tried as long as possible to maintain his scientific activity.From theCambridge English Corpus
Some of the earliest were antifolates, chemically modified to increase their effectiveness in treating childhood leukaemias.From theCambridge English Corpus
Prior conflicting results were obtained fromleukaemia-derived cell lines, arrested at a single stage of haematopoiesis, and appear to be cellline-specific.From theCambridge English Corpus
An example might be a cluster ofleukaemiacases near a nuclear power plant.From theCambridge English Corpus
Median survival for early-stage chronic lymphaticleukaemiaand indolent follicular lymphomas is in the order of 10 years.From theCambridge English Corpus
An example of this is the occurrence of acute myeloidleukaemiain patients with myelodysplasia.From theCambridge English Corpus
Every parent grieves for the death of their children fromleukaemia.From theCambridge English Corpus
Risk factors in the remaining three patients were : chronic myelogenousleukaemia, immunosuppression for renal transplant, and hyperglycaemia induced by corticosteroid used for temporal arteritis.From theCambridge English Corpus
A replication-defective retroviral vector based on the murineleukaemiavirus is genetically modified to encode the human c sequence.From theCambridge English Corpus
However, such an approach would be possible in a limited number of tumour types, such asleukaemia, where repeated sampling of the tumour was feasible.From theCambridge English Corpus
The median age of acute myeloidleukaemiaat diagnosis is over 60 years.From theCambridge English Corpus
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