background: the conventional chemotherapeutic regimens which applied for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (aml) mostly target tumor bulk but not leukemic stem cells (lscs). aberrant expression or activation of mediators such as osteopontin (opn) or pi3k/pten/akt/mtor pathway plays a key role in making prone to develop leukemia. preventing or treating cancer by curcumin (cur) has been suggest...

testicular chloroma is an unusual form of extramedullary acute myeloid leukemia. we present a rare case that after chemotherapy relapsed with the appearance of metachronous testicular chloroma and we suggest prophylactic radiotherapy.

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) and chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) are the most common leukemias of the elderly (>43 year). however, the sequential occurrence of cml followed by cll in the same patient is extremely rare. in our report, a 52-year-old female was diagnosed with cll (type of bone marrow (bm) infiltration was nodular and interstitial) and was treated with chlorambucil. 64 months ...

a 61-year-old female presented with complaints of fever, general weakness and hepatosplenomegaly. she had a history of nonfamilial peripheral neurofibromatosis diagnosed as von recklinghausen's disease since 30 years previous. physical examination was remarkable for skin colored cutaneous circumscribed nodules which appeared soft to the touch in both arms, the upper part of her abdomen, back, a...

Myeloid/lymphoid neoplasms with FGFR1 rearrangement (MLN-FGFR1) comprise a heterogeneous group of that can present as myeloproliferative neoplasm, myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative acute myeloid leukemia, T or B lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, mixed phenotype leukemia. The overall outcome these is poor, and patients often show cytogenetic evolution gain additional chromosomal abnormalities le...

introduction: apoptosis is an important mechanism in both physiological and pathological conditions. the bcl2 family of proteins plays a critical role in regulation of apoptotic cell death. up and down regulation of bcl2-like 12 (bcl2l12), a new member of the bcl2 family, has been reported in several malignancies. however, the expression level of bcl2l12 rarely has been studied in leukemia. thi...

endocarditis due to aspergillus infection is a rare complication in patients with hematological malignancies. here, we present a case of aspergillus endocarditis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia (aml) successfully treated with antifungal therapy and surgical treatment. the patient was a 51 years old male, a known case of aml who was admitted to our medical center for evacuating his valv...

maintenance treatment for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml) in remission has recently been controversially discussed and even abandoned by several groups. an analysis of 16 published multicenter trials, however, revealed the highest probabilities of relapse free survival (rfs) in the range of 35-42 % at 4-5 years only in patients assigned to maintenance treatment when adult age and int...

calcium metabolic disorders, such as hypercalcemia is a potentially life-threatening disorder especially when coupled with an already compromised condition. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of metabolic calcium disorders in childhood cancers of patients admitted to the pediatric ward of vali-asr hospital from the year 2001-2008. the study was carried out by reviewing hospit...

background : fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 is a tyrosine kinase receptor that plays an important role in proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells. internal tandem duplication and tyrosine kinase domain mutation are the two most common types of fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 mutations frequently reported in acute myeloid leukemia associated with pathogenesis of this disease. the pr...