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My brother had already undergone a year of treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

And while there exists a drug that exploits an enzyme pathway involved in glucose uptake, it is used for only one kind of cancer—chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

The five-year survival rate is now approximately 90% for children with acute lymphocytic leukemia and between 65% and 70% for those with acute myelogenous leukemia.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

Peters was first diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995, and later diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, which returned in 2015.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

Just as little as a polynuclear increase is abnormal, is an increase of the lymphocytes remarkable; and in this case the lymphocytic increase was recognisable after the end of the fifth year.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.