Editing Leukemia (section)

==Society and culture==
According to [[Susan Sontag]], leukemia was often romanticized in 20th-century fiction, portrayed as a joy-ending, clean disease whose fair, innocent and gentle victims die young or at the wrong time. As such, it was the cultural successor to [[Tuberculosis#Folklore|tuberculosis]], which held this cultural position until it was discovered to be an infectious disease.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Sontag S |title=Illness as Metaphor|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=New York|year=1978|pages=[https://archive.org/details/illnessasmetapho00susa/page/18 18]|isbn=978-0-374-17443-9|title-link=Illness as Metaphor}}</ref> The 1970 romance novel ''[[Love Story (novel)|Love Story]]'' is an example of this romanticization of leukemia.<ref>{{Cite thesis| vauthors = Bey B |title=Cancer as Metaphor: The Metaphorical Implications of Romanticized Illness in Young Adult Fiction|date=2017|degree=English Honors|publisher=[[Trinity University (Texas)|Trinity University]]|url=https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=eng_honors|page=5-6}}</ref>

In the United States, around $5.4 billion is spent on treatment a year.<ref name="NCISnap2">{{cite web|title = A Snapshot of Leukemia|url = http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/snapshots/leukemia|website = NCI|access-date = 18 June 2014|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140704183430/http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/snapshots/leukemia|archive-date = 4 July 2014|df = dmy-all}}</ref>