hairy cell leukemia

American  

noun

1. a form of cancer in which abnormal cells with many hairlike cytoplasmic projections appear in the bone marrow, liver, spleen, and blood.

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Example Sentences

Ira Pastan of the National Cancer Institute was awarded the Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal for discovering “a breakthrough class of drugs to successfully treat a rare but deadly form of cancer, called hairy cell leukemia, in patients who have few other treatment options.”

From Washington Post

The 41-year-old Kelso High School art and ceramics teacher was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia in April 2016.

From Washington Times

Hairy cell leukemia is a rare, slow-growing blood cancer.

From Washington Times

Hematopoietic stem cell origin of BRAFV600E mutations in hairy cell leukemia.

From Nature

In a 1990 story in the Health section of The Washington Post, he described his struggles with alcoholism and a rare form of cancer, hairy cell leukemia.

From Washington Post