ARTICLE INFO Leukaemia stands for blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow and results in the generation of abnormal cells. Leukaemia is mainly classified as acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML).This thesis makes an effort to devise a methodology for the detection and classification of Leuk...

The care for younger patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) requires fully equipped medical facilities that have routine experience the management of this aggressive disorder. Two indepen...

This Athena case describes a young man with sudden onset eruption of localised plaques on the right neck in setting treatments for recently diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia.

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) accounts for about 78% of all leukaemia diagnosed in children. ALL is the most common cancer in children [2] . Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is the next most common and accounts for 15% of childhood leukaemia. The incidence rates are highest in infants (under 1 year old) and show little variation from age 3 years onwards. Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) accou...

Acute leukaemia of ambiguous lineage (ALAL) is a rare form of leukaemia in which morphologic, cytochemical and immuno-phenotypic features of the proliferating blasts lack sufficient evidence to classify them as myeloid or lymphoid in origin or have characteristics of both myeloid and lymphoid cells. We report a 22-year-old man presenting with clinical features of an acute lymphoblastic leukaemi...

Chloroma, also called Granulocytic Sarcoma or Myeloid Sarcoma, is a rare malignant extra-medullary neoplasm of myeloid precursor cells. It is usually associated with myelo-proliferative disorders but its appearance may precede the onset of leukaemia. Chloroma may be found in several extracranial sites. Involvement of the head and neck region is uncommon. Differential diagnosis is often difficul...

Samples from 49 cases of myeloproliferative diseases were tested by an immunocytochemical technique for leucocyte lysozyme and lactoferrin. The presence of these constituents in myeloid precursors from cases of acute and chronic myeloid leukaemia reflected the degree of cellular maturation, lysozyme appearing (as it does in normal myeloid cells) at the stage of primary granule production (in pr...

background: recently, the anti cancer effect of chromene derivatives in different cell types has been reported. in this study, we report some derivatives of dihydropyrano[c]chromenes with growth inhibitory and apoptotic activity against k562, chronic myeloid leukaemia (cml). methods: the cells were seeded in 96-well plates at 1×105 cells/well and treated with different concentrations of the dih...

Leukaemia is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood characterised by abnormal differentiation of haematopoietic stem cells and subsequent overproliferation of blood cells that cannot properly mature. Myeloid leukaemias (also termed myelogenous or granulocytic leukaemias) usually involve the overproduction of immature granulocytic white blood cells, known as blasts (in contrast to lymphoblastic l...

Granulocytic sarcoma is an unusual variant of myeloid malignancy most commonly encountered in the course of chronic or acute myeloid leukaemia. Of 60 patients of chronic myeloid leukaemia studied over 21 months, we encountered 6 (10%) cases of granulocytic sarcoma. Four of these had granulocytic sarcoma on their first presentation. All those who were receiving hydroxyurea did not fare well but ...