How to Use bone marrow in a Sentence

bone marrow

noun
  • Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • That wasn’t the case with the stem cells isolated from the bone marrow.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow.
    — NBC News, 6 July 2019
  • Wait about a year while stem cells with the good genes multiply in the bone marrow.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The founder, Mansur Khan, died of bone marrow cancer five years ago, at age...
    — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2019
  • His son, Nicholas, said the cause was bone marrow cancer.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2021
  • Don’t miss the bone marrow with bacon jam or the fries cooked in beef tallow.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The cancer was in his bone marrow and had spread throughout his body.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Acute myeloid leukemia is an aggressive cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Ross said, adding that her son, who was seven at the time, was the only bone marrow match.
    — Steve Smith, Courant Community, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Roasted bone marrow is cooled, carved from the bone and served as nigiri.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia is a rare type of cancer of the bone marrow, the Mayo Clinic says.
    — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The lymph system includes the lymph nodes as well as bone marrow, the spleen, and the thymus gland, the Mayo Clinic says.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 20 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The Longeveron product being tested comes from the bone marrow of young, healthy adult donors.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 22 May 2018
  • 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
  • The bones had marks and cuts suggesting the removal of bone marrow and brain matter.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • For example, some patients with leukemia receive bone marrow transplants, which replace the diseased blood stem cells in the bone marrow with healthy ones.
    — Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Stem cell transplant: Also called a bone marrow transplant, this treatment replaces cancerous bone marrow cells with healthy donor cells.
    — Health, 24 May 2025

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