How to Use bone marrow in a Sentence

bone marrow

noun
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  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • In most cases, leukemia starts in the bone marrow and then spreads through the bloodstream.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Those cells, from the bone marrow, produce red and white blood cells.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 16 June 2021
  • His son, Nicholas, said the cause was bone marrow cancer.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2021
  • One is strontium-90, which can cause cancer in bones and bone marrow, as well as leukemia.
    — Hart Rapaport, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The drug could be used to replace bone marrow transplants.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Roasted bone marrow is cooled, carved from the bone and served as nigiri.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Benzene has also been linked to leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 3 Dec. 2021
  • By 2010, though, about half of his bone marrow cells were cancer cells.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow, where the blood cells are produced.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Mast cells are white blood cells produced in bone marrow.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that changes how bone marrow functions.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In polycythemia vera, the bone marrow makes too much red blood cells.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This type of leukemia impact the myeloid stem cells in the bone marrow—the ones that go on to become healthy red and white blood cells, as well as platelets.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Gift of Life uses funds raised to add new donors to the worldwide bone marrow registry.
    — Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
  • Those cells begin to build up in the bone marrow and blood, per MedlinePlus.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The MSCs were cultured from each patient’s bone marrow via a process that took a few weeks to finish.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Leukemia is a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow, which is where your red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are produced.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The first, called induction, is designed to kill leukemia cells in the blood and bone marrow and get blood cell counts back to normal.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Platelets are tiny, golden-colored cells made in the bone marrow, which help to stop bleeding.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The report said Grodin died Tuesday of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Conn.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 18 May 2021
  • If that doesn’t work, a stem cell or bone marrow transplant is the only option.
    — oregonlive, 17 Apr. 2021
  • That includes a 9-year-old girl who was brought out of Gaza to donate bone marrow to her sick brother.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The new treatments are technically not a cure in the same way a bone marrow transplant would be.
    — Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The abnormal red blood cells told him that something was wrong in her bone marrow, where blood is made.
    — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
  • His son David said the cause was myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • Help raise awareness for blood stem cell and bone marrow transplants.
    — Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
  • To do so, chemotherapy is used to destroy the patient’s bone marrow.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Two of the most common sources for stem cells in research and treatments are bone marrow or fat tissue.
    — AZCentral.com, 9 June 2021
  • Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that impacts plasma B cells, a type of white blood cell found in the bone marrow.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

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