However, he missed almost all of the 2004-05 season with Inter helping his daughter to fight leukemia.

Wejchert had fought leukemia since 1993, which he had kept secret from the public.

And yet somehow a pharmacist had misread a confusing recipe card for Cytarabine, a drug used to fight leukemia.

Mr. Grotowski died after years of fighting leukemia, said the director Andre Gregory, a friend.

Student athletes have joined their peers, Dr. Conk said, in raising money for a local toddler who is fighting leukemia.

He works with children fighting leukemia.

He has also set up the Dan Jansen Foundation in memory of his sister, with the purpose of fighting leukemia.

The station hosted a popular radiothon for one weekend a year for several years, raising funds to fight leukemia.

Mr. Oberon, 83, is in a wheelchair and is fighting leukemia.

He died on 6 April 1999, aged 83, having fought leukemia for four years.