"Leukemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A progressive, malignant disease of the blood-forming organs, characterized by distorted proliferation and development of leukocytes and their precursors in the blood and bone marrow. Leukemias were originally termed acute or chronic based on life expectancy but now are classified according to cellular maturity. Acute leukemias consist of predominately immature cells; chronic leukemias are composed of more mature cells. (From The Merck Manual, 2006)
| Descriptor ID |
D007938
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C04.557.337
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukemia- Leukemia
- Leukemias
- Leucocythaemia
- Leucocythaemias
- Leucocythemia
- Leucocythemias
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Leukemia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Leukemia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2005 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2011 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2014 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2017 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2019 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2020 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2021 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leukemia" by people in Profiles.
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Short-chain fatty acid-producing microbes differentiate non-infectious and infectious neutropenic fever in leukemia. mSystems. 2026 Apr 21; 11(4):e0134325.
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Disparate leukemia mutations converge on nuclear phase-separated condensates. Cell. 2025 Dec 11; 188(25):7118-7136.e21.
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Telomere attrition becomes an instrument for clonal selection in aging hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis. Nat Genet. 2025 Sep; 57(9):2215-2225.
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Maternal prenatal infection and childhood leukaemia: a Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) meta-analysis. Int J Epidemiol. 2025 Aug 18; 54(5).
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Optimizing early phase clinical trial washout periods: a report from the Therapeutic Advances in Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma consortium. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2024 Nov 01; 116(11):1721-1729.
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Perturbing TET2 condensation promotes aberrant genome-wide DNA methylation and curtails leukaemia cell growth. Nat Cell Biol. 2024 Dec; 26(12):2154-2167.
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SOD1 is a synthetic-lethal target in PPM1D-mutant leukemia cells. Elife. 2024 Jun 18; 12.
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Prolonged cytopenias after immune effector cell therapy and lymphodepletion in patients with leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors. Cytotherapy. 2024 Sep; 26(9):1026-1032.
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Establishment of Murine Pregnancy Requires the Promyelocytic Leukemia Zinc Finger Transcription Factor. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Mar 19; 25(6).
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Counts, incidence rates, and trends of pediatric cancer in the United States, 2003-2019. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023 11 08; 115(11):1337-1354.