background: early diagnosis and treatment of leukemia patients remains a fundamental aim in clinical oncology, especially in developing country. present study highlights the basic requirements of these patients in iran. better understanding of these issues may lead to improve the healthcare standards toward leukemia diagnosis and treatment. methods: this descriptive study included 101 specialis...

background and purpose: leukemia is the most prevalent type of cancer in children and its prognostic factors vary in different geographic locations. the aim of this study was to estimate the 5 years survival rate of children suffering from leukemia in kerman, iran and to investigate the factors which might influence it. materials and methods: this was a cohort study conducted on patients with a...

background: leukemia is the most common and fatal cancer among young adults. among all malignancies, it has the greatesteffects on emotional and mental aspects of the patients. while 25-33% of patients with non-hematological malignancies sufferfrom anxiety disorder, some studies have reported the rate among patients with leukemia as high as 50%. anxiety can negativelyaffect other important char...

background: peripherally inserted central catheter (picc) is commonly used in nursing for patients with leukemia. the purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors of catheter-related infection (cri) in patients with leukemia and to provide some nursing strategies based on the results. methods: clinical data from 140 patients with leukemia between may 2014 and july 2016 in haiyang p...

abstract background leukemia is one of the most common tumors in children and it is divided up into two main groups acute and chronic leukemia. the acute leukemia is more prevalent than chronic in children. generally acute type is included acute lymphoid leukemia (all) and acute myeloid leukemia (aml). in this study, patients with leukemia who were admitted in talghani hospital of gorgan were e...

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. T...

Literature review shows that hepatitis C infection may increase the risk of non-hodgkin lymphoma. Reactivation of hepatitis B infection has been reported in patients with hairy cell leukemia after chemotherapy and/or splenectomy. We present hepatitis B surface (HBs) antigenemia and concurrent hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositivity in a case of hairy cell leukemia. Key Words: Hairy cell leukemi...

introduction: acute leukemia covers a broad spectrum of hematological clonal diseases originating from the malignant transformation of stem cells. current chemotherapeutic methods result in an incomplete response to primary regimens in 30-40% of cases. methods: 20 patients who had been diagnosed with acute leukemia and who had displayed defined criteria in order to enter our study, were assesse...

Objective: To study whether the generated CD1a positive cells belong to the leukemic cells among patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Materials and Methods: We used mononuclear cells from 3 patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, from which two had monosomy 7. The mononuclear cells from these patients were cultured in RPMI/10%FCS without adding exogeneous growth factors fo...

background : leukemia is the most common malignancy in young adults that has a life-threatening nature which increases the patients' spiritual needs, leading to emergence of spiritual crises. however, evidences indicate that spiritual needs of patients and their spiritual well-being are not emphasized among health care personnel. according to the cultural, religious and social backgrounds as we...