Abnormalities of the thyroid gland are among the most frequent endocrine complications observed in childhood cancer survivors. We report an 11 years old girl who developed central hypothyroidism and ACTH deficiency during the chemotherapy for CNS relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia before receiving radiotherapy. Keywords: Thyroid gland, hypothyroidism, chemotherapy, acute lymphoblastic leu...

abstract background: high temperatures have destructive effects on cancer cells by damaging proteins and structures within cells. gold nanoparticles (aunps) can act as drug delivery vehicles, especially for cancer therapy. due to the selective intake of asparagine molecules into malignant cells, aunps were coated with asparagine; and ccrf-cem human t-cell leukemia cells were treated with the ne...

introduction: the traditional goal of the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia is to produce and maintain a complete remission (cr).the difference in survival time was entirely attributable to the duration of time spent in cr .in this study, the outcome of aml patients with allogeneic hsct in cr1 versus other than cr1 was compared. patients and methods: since march 1991 until november 2008, ...

background: acute promyelocytic leukemia (apl) is a unique subtype of acute leukemia. apl is a curable disease; however, drug resistance, early mortality, disease relapse and treatment-related complications remain challenges in apl patient management. one issue underlying these challenges is that the molecular mechanisms of the disease are not sufficiently understood. materials and methods: in ...

background among all pediatric cancers acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is highly prevalent, butthe overall cost of all management is not well-known, there is a need to assess the berlin-frankfurt-munster (bfm) protocol commonly used in all management in iran. so, the aim of this study was to estimate direct and indirect costs of all treatment among children based on the all-bfm protocol from...

background: the human aml1 gene, located on chromosome 21, can be fused to the aml1- eight-twenty-one (eto) oncoprotein on chromosome eight, resulting in a t(8;21)(q22;q22) translocation. acute myeloid leukemia (aml) associated with this translocation is considered a distinct aml with a favorable prognosis. due to the various incidences of the translocation, which is associated with geographic ...

abstract background cancer diagnosis may cause deep emotional and affective problems in patients and their families.nowadays, however, despite its rising prevalence,cancer is no longer synonymous with death. given the significance of emotional well-being in cancer patients, we decided to assess the frequency of psychological problems in seven to seventeen yearolds with acute lymphoblastic leuke...

We evaluated the potential role of photoradiation therapy with a benzoporphyrin derivative, monoacid ring A (BPD-MA), and dihematoporphyrin ether (DHE), for the ex vivo purging of residual tumor cells from autologous bone marrow (BM) grafts. BPD-MA and DHE photosensitizing activity was tested against two human large-cell lymphoma cell lines and colony-forming unit-leukemia (CFU-L) derived from ...