Few data are available about hydatid cysts in patients with malignancy; however, these have rarely been described in association with leukemia. The purpose of this report was to present an unusual case of coexisting leukemia and pulmonary hydatid cysts.This study presented a 13-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukemia who was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary hydatid cysts after the completion...

conclusions the results of this review showed that the number of studies on the use of complementary medicine in leukemia patients is very limited (especially in iran), and it can be the subject of numerous studies in the future. results the overall results showed that few studies have been conducted on the use of exercise, massage therapy, music therapy, acupressure, and healing touch in patie...

abstractintroduction: the role of breast-feeding in protection against childhood acute leukemia is uncertain. in this study, we tested the hypothesis that breast-feeding decreases the risk of 300 patients we investigated childhood acute leukemia. materials and methods: in a case control study, we inrestigated 300 patients, aged 2±13 years, with acute leukemia, as well as 300 controls, individua...

Leukemia is type of cancer in blood which impacts the lymphatic framework and bone marrow also white cells. Leukemia, contrast to other types cancer, does not produce solid tumors; instead, it produces a huge number aberrant cells that crowd out healthy Machine learning algorithms are widely utilized treatment leukemia, whether classify various forms leukemia or determine patient has disease. I...

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...

background: the present study was aimed to examine the possible association between methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr) gene polymorphisms and childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) in a sample of iranian population. subjects and methods: a total of 220 subjects including 100 children diagnosed with all and 120 healthy children participated in the case-control study. the single n...

how to cite this article:  nazari sh, moradi n, sadeghi koupaei mt. evaluation of the effects of psychotherapy on anxiety among mothers of children with leukemia. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):52-57.   objective children with leukemia and their families face a long period of medical treatment and uncertainty about the future. these families may suffer from short- and long-term emotiona...