Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia of adults in the western world and constitutes about 33% of all leukemia's. The incidence of CLL increases with age and are more common in older population. Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) on the contrary occurs in both young adults and elderly and is a chronic myeloproliferative disease that originates from abnormal pluripotent stem...

T HE SENSITIVITY OF LYMPHOCYTES to irradiation provides a rationale for the use of extracorporeal irradiation (ECI ) of the circulating blood to destroy lymphocytes selectively. Since 1962, ECI has been used in various studies, including investigations of lymphocyte physiology and prolongation of allogeneic skin graft survival in calves. These studies1 established the basic feasibility and effe...

BACKGROUND In Chile, leukemia is one of the diseases whose treatment is guaranteed by a special law called AUGE (universal access and explicit guaranties). Therefore, the knowledge of its treatment costs is of utmost importance. AIM To determine and to characterize the direct costs of pharmacotherapy for leukemia at a regional hospital in Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were retrospectivel...

Morphological pattern of 234 consecutive cases of various types of leukemias is presented. Acute leukemias (62.8%) were commoner than chronic (37.2%). Amongst acute leukemias, myeloid leukemias (AML) were more frequent as compared to lymphoblastic (ALL). AML:ALL ratio was 2.57:1 in adults and 1:3 in children. Amongst AML cases, M4 was the commonest, followed by M2, M1, M3 and M4 and M6 and M7 r...

Leukemia is a group of lethal diseases characterized by hematological neoplasm with complex and abnormalities in proliferation bone marrow stem cells, that cause sever loss functional capacity hematopoietic tissue. Four most common types leukemia are included acute lymphoblastic (ALL), myeloid (AML), chronic lymphocytic (CLL) (CML). It has been reported opium besides pain killer effects, may ha...

C HRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA is a rare disease in Japan. Since the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission ( ABCC ) initiated its leukemia case-detection program in 1950 only a few patients with this disorder have been identified in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this report the incidence of chronic lymphocytic leukemia during a 20 year period in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is compared with ...

Monoclonal antibodies that react with hematopoietic cells and their precursors in a stage and lineage restricted fashion were used in indirect immunofluorescence assays to examine leukemic cells from 105 pediatric age patients. The differentiative states of blasts from 42 patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) were defined by these antibodies. When these were compared to their morph...