Timely diagnosis and early initiation of treatment acute leukemia in children improve survival. Our study aimed to identify the factors associated with delayed children. A prospective observational was done at a tertiary care Superspeciality hospital Northern India. The included 100 aged 0–12 years over 18 months leukemia. A mixed-methods technique used, combining important variables...

Introduction. The treatment outcome of adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia is much poorer in contrast to pediatric patients. By changing the concept for patients who are leukemia, especially use regimens, significant improvement survival has been made (current 5-year rate goes up 70%). Contributing factors different outcomes between children leukemia. Beside differenc...

although chronic myelogenous leukemia in pregnancy is rare, its management and treatment is more difficult and complicated. treatment of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia includes bone marrow transplantation, however in less than 30% of patients the donor’s organ would be accepted. to this end, cytotoxic therapy is considered as an alternative therapeutic option. this option provides s...

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 leukemia...

patients with lymphoproliferative disorders have cellular immune deficiency and are susceptible to typical and atypical mycobacterial infections.hairy cell leukemia is a b-cell type lymphoproliferative disorder.2-cda is the choice of treatment for patients with hairy cell leukemia. it is a synthetic antineoplastic agent with immunosuppressive effects.we present development of pulmonary and meni...

background : we conducted the present study to investigate the frequency of prothrombin g20210a mutation among acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients and healthy individuals from western iran and to detect the possible association between this mutation and the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in our population. methods : the studied groups consisted of 92 children with acute lymphoblastic le...

background : leukemia is the most common cancer in children, accounting for near to half of all childhood cancers. different risk factors might be effective in the occurrence of this cancer such as parental characteristics. this study was done in west azarbaijan province in order to determine the relation between parental characteristics and acute leukemia in children. methods : this matched ca...

background: a case-control study was carried out to investigate the roles of prior allergies and family history of cancers and their interaction in the etiology of adult leukemia. methods: prior allergies status and family history of cancers in first-degree relatives were compared between 131 incident leukemia cases and 206 hospital-based controls. odds ratios (or) were estimated using an uncon...

The appendix is an unusual site for extramedulary relapse in acute leukemia. The present case report describes two cases of late course acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented with leukemic infiltration of the appendix and complete remission of bone marrow. The signs and symptoms of the cases suggest that leukemic involvement of the appendix should be considered in the differential diagnosis of ...

Introduction. Extramedullary sites of leukemic proliferation, harboring an adverse outcome, are rare and usually found in the blastic phase chronic myeloid leukemia. We report a case newly diagnosed patient with leukemia phase, infiltration right ovary on disease presentation. Case report. The presented abdominal pain, leukocytosis, anemia. A peripheral blood smear indicated leukemia, cytoreduc...