introduction acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is the most common malignancy of childhood. patients with all commonly present with easy bruising and infections due to medullary involvement. the extra medullary involvements of all manifests as hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and testicular enlargement. among extramedullary manifestations of the all, thyroid involvement is rare. herein, we ...

abstract background: fatigue is the most common side effect of chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all).acupressure is one of the most popular non‑pharmacologic methods used to reduce fatigue in other settings. the aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of acupressure on reducing fatigue among children with all compared with a placebo treatment. materials and method...

fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 is a receptor tyrosine kinase expressed by immature hematopoietic cells and is important for the normal development of stem cells and the immune system. mutations of fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 have been detected in about 30% of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia and a small number of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. the fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 muta...

background obesity is a medical problem in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. obesity is associated with many complications, so it is important to investigate the respective etiology. leptin is a protein synthesized in the fatty tissue and is effective in the control of obesity. survey of leptin in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) survivors could be helpful in controlling ob...

background: dysregulation of wnt signaling has been reported in many malignancies. objective: this study was conducted to investigate the expression pattern of 14 members of the wnt gene family in different immunophenotypic subtypes of all. methods: semi-quantitative rt-pcr was performed on samples from 71 all patients and 36 age-matched healthy individuals. the all patients were categorized in...

t cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is an invasive disease with a higher incidence in children and adolescents. in terms of immunophenotype, t-all is positive for cd2, cd7, cd34 and hla-dr, and the level of these markers is increased with increasing age. in addition, the myeloid markers (cd13, cd33) are sometimes expressed in t-all. in this study, we introduce a rare case of a 28-year-old...

conclusions our findings indicated that mdm2 40-bp ins/del polymorphism was not associated with all in our iranian population. further studies with larger sample sizes and diverse ethnicities are required to verify our findings. background the human murine double minute 2 (mdm2), an oncoprotein, is the major negative regulator of p53. objectives the purpose of this study was to evaluate the imp...

acute lymphoblastic leukemia(all) is due to early stage arrest of lymphoblast development. the translocation of philadelphia (ph) chromosome occurs as a result of the bcr-abl fusion gene, which constitutively produced activated tyrosine kinase. this gene fusion is an important indicator for prognosis in all and is associated with poor overall survival and remission duration. bcr-abl could inter...