introduction campylobacter jejuni is a slender, motile, non-spore-forming, helical-shaped, gram-negative bacterium. it is one of the most common causes of human gastroenteritis in the world. the aim of this study was to present a patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia (all), who was infected with campylobacter jejuni. conclusions c. jejuni should be considered in the differential diagnosis as ...

In an attempt to lay a sound foundation for understand ing the therapeutic effectiveness of glucocorticoids in the treatment of hematological cancers, we have studied glucocorticoid receptors and sensitivity to glucocorticoids in vitro in the malignant cells from 56 patients with leuke mia and lymphoma and in peripheral lymphocytes from normal donors. In contrast to several previous studies in ...

Transformation to a large cell lymphoma may occur during the course of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) in approximately 5% of the cases. This is known as Richter's transformation. A much less frequent transformation to Hodgkin lymphoma may occur. We report a case of CLL/SLL in which a transformation to Hodgkin lymphoma occurred, and we review previously publish...

Although the diagnosis of classical Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL) is traditionally made morphologically in tissue sections, it is now possible to diagnose CHL by flow cytometry (FC). In an effort to identify additional antigens on Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells that might be useful for immunophenotyping this lymphoma by FC, we examined the expression of CD123 (α chain of the IL-3R) on HRS cell...

background: the present study was aimed to examine the possible association between methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr) gene polymorphisms and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) in a sample of iranian population. subjects and methods: a total of 220 subjects including 100 children diagnosed with all and 120 healthy children participated in the case-control study. the single n...

A marked increase in leukemia risks was the first and most striking late effect of radiation exposure seen among the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. This article presents analyses of radiation effects on leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma incidence in the Life Span Study cohort of atomic bomb survivors updated 14 years since the last comprehensive report on these malignancies...

abstract objective the incidence of childhood cancer has been increasing nearly one percent per year for the past two decades. leukemia and lymphoma are the most common types of childhood cancers. this study assessed the relation between environmental factors (hydrocarbon, agricultural toxin, insecticide) and leukemia/lymphoma in children, which was evaluated by the frequency of the parents’ ha...

Introduction Bacterial asparaginase obtained from Escherichia coli and Erwinia chrysanthemi are used as medicine to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Despite the therapeutic properties of such enzymes there have been reports on adverse reactions, eventually so severe as to impede some patients of using the medicine. Besides, the only drug Brazil used to import is no lon...

Note Amplification of 2p13-16 has frequently been found in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, mediastinal thymic B-cell lymphoma and in some cases of neuroblastoma, ovarian cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, non-small cell lung cancer and synovial sarcoma (Knuutila et al., 1998). Translocations and deletions of region 2p12 were found in acute and chronic lymphocytic leukaemias as well a...

Abbreviations: acute lymphoblastic leukemias, (ALLs); acute myeloid leukemia, (AML); arsenic trioxide, (ATO); B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, (B-CLL); blast crisis, (BC); chronic lymphocytic leukemias, (CLL); CML-Acceleration Phase/Blast Crisis, (CML/AP/BC); CML-Bone Marrow Transplantation patients, (CML-BMT); CML-Chronic Phase patients, (CML/CP); DNA binding domain, (DBD); dominant-negati...