The early signs of leukemia can usually manifest in the oral cavity due to infiltration of leukemic cells or due to associated decline in normal marrow elements, especially in the acute phase of leukemia, as common lesions at this stage of the disease can be screened and diagnosed by the dentist. Therefore, the dental community should be aware of the oral manifestations of leukemia and oral com...

Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship among demographic, clinical characteristics, and psychosocial factors related salivary cortisol in children with leukemia. Methods: research was a descriptive cross-sectional design. The sample leukemia Dr. Sardjito General Hospital Yogyakarta from January February 2018 size 30 respondents who had met inclusion criteria, aged 6-18 years, ...

introduction nausea and vomiting are the most common side effects of chemotherapy in the pediatrics with cancer which affect their quality of life. use of some methods of complementary medicine in leukemia patients is problematic. because, leukemia patients are at risk of infection and bleeding, therefore the use of acupressure, acupuncture, and deep massage can be risky in these patients. slow...

Introduction. The treatment outcome of adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia is much poorer in contrast to pediatric patients. By changing the concept for patients who are leukemia, especially use regimens, significant improvement survival has been made (current 5-year rate goes up 70%). Contributing factors different outcomes between children leukemia. Beside differenc...

introduction: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) and non-hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl) are the most common childhood and adolescence malignancy respectively.due to the increasing survival of these children, today late side effects of treatments are important. therapies such as corticosteroids, cytotoxic and radiotherapy effect on bone density and put the child at risk of osteoporosis and pathol...

Background: Vincristine polyneuropathy is a major neurotoxic complication of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children. A close relationship between genetic variants candidate genes associated with the vincristine neurotoxicity various ethnic groups has been proposed. Therefore, identification risk factors underlying predisposition to could allow development effective tools prevent...

Leukemia is a malignant disease and belongs in broader sense to Cancers. There are many types of leukemia, each which requires specific treatment. almost one-third all cancer deaths children young people. The most common type leukemia acute lymphoblastic (ALL). In this paper, new approach implanted on ALL database. For the method wavelet transform used for feature extraction, gray level co-occu...

Evidence has emerged that childhood leukemia is initiated in utero. High birth weight is one of the few birth-related factors that has been associated with childhood leukemia, albeit not consistently. The authors conducted a meta-analysis of studies of the association between birth weight and childhood leukemia risk. Study-specific odds ratios for leukemia were calculated, using a cutoff at 4,0...