Patients with t(17;19) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have a dismal prognosis even with the most intensive current therapies that include stem cell transplant. We present the case of a patient with t(17;19)(q22;p13) gene rearranged B-cell precursor ALL whose lymphoblasts were found to have significant in vitro sensitivity to dasatinib. The patient tolerated the addition of dasatinib with co...

Effect of graft source on unrelated donor haemopoietic stem-cell trans-plantation in adults with acute leukaemia: a retrospective analysis. al. Unrelated transplantation for poor-prognosis adult acute lym-phoblastic leukemia: long-term outcome analysis and study of the impact of hematopoietic graft source. R, et al. Favorable outcome of unrelated cord blood transplantation for Philadelphia chro...

Genetic alterations of the transcription factor IKZF1 ("IKAROS") are detected in around 15-30% of cases of BCR-ABL-negative B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Different types of intragenic deletions have been observed, resulting in a functionally inactivated allele ("loss-of-function") or in "dominant-negative" isoforms. The prognostic impact of these alterations especially in adult...

AbstractLeukemia is known as the world’s fifth most prevalent cancer. New cytotoxic drugs have created considerable progress in the treatment, but side effects are still the important cause of mortality. Plant derivatives have been recently considered as important sources for the treatment of various diseases, including cancer. Gallic acid (GA) is a polyhydroxyphenolic compound with a wide rang...

Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a bone marrow and blood neoplasm involving precursor cells, or lymphoblasts, dedicated to B/T-cell lineages. ALL usually presents with bicytopenia/pancytopenia thrombocytopenia the most important key parameter. Thrombocytosis has not been well-described feature of ALL; hence, this study was planned investigate incidence thrombocytosis at initial ...

Clinically significant myocardial infiltration by blast cells is a rare occurrence in acute leukemia. Heart failure rate children with hemato-oncological diseases unknown. Here we report clinical case of an 8-year-old female patient B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia as well heart that resolved during specific therapy for the cancer. The patient's parents gave consent to use their child's data, incl...

Southern blotting and multiple restriction enzymes were used to analyze T-cell receptor (TCR) and immunoglobulin heavy chain genes in 20 postthymic T-cell neoplasms, ten prethymic and thymic T-cell tumors, and 45 cases of precursor-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Immunoglobulin heavy chain, never rearranged in a postthymic specimen and only once in a prethymic/thymic sample, was rearrange...