Leukemia: Its Causes, Treatments, and Effects on People with the Disease

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Leukemia: Its Causes, Treatments, and Effects on People with the Disease
Marya
Sklodowska
was born in 1867 in Poland. She died in 1934 of leukemia, or cancer of the blood, at a relatively young age. We know
Marya
Sklodowska
better by her chosen name, Marie Curie, which she adopted when she moved to France in the 1890s and married her husband, Pierre Curie. Marie Curie made several great achievements during her life. First of all, she discovered radium, a chemical element that was radioactive, with her husband, a fellow scientific researcher. In 1903 the two scientists won a Nobel Prize for their discovery of radium; this was the first time in history that a woman had won the Physics Nobel Prize (Nobel-Winners.com). When her husband died in...

.....little more than half of all people diagnosed with leukemia will survive for five years or more after being treated. In the future, I hope that more of them will live.
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