The number of leukemia patients and survivors is growing. This review summarizes what is known regarding the health related quality of life (HRQOL) and medical complications associated with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) disease and treatment and highlights understudied aspects of adult AML survivorship care, and potential novel areas for intervention.

The expression of three distinct myeloid-specific cell surface antigens detected by monoclonal antibodies (PMN 6, PMN 29, and AML-2-23) on acute and chronic myeloid leukemia cells is correlated with blast cell morphology and normal myeloid cell antigen display. In studies on normal peripheral blood cells, monoclonal antibodies PMN 6 and PMN 29 have previously been shown to react exclusively wit...

AIM Aim was to detect Brain and Acute Leukemia, Cytoplasmic (BAALC) and ETS-related gene (ERG) expression in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as well as to study their biologic and prognostic impact on the disease outcome and survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS The current study was carried out on 44 patients with denovo acute myeloid leukemia, as well as 44 age and sex matched controls....

Abstract Background Myeloid cells express microparticles that could increase the expression of adhesion molecules including P-selectin. We aimed to evaluate level soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin) and prothrombin fragment 1 + 2 (F1 2), determine correlation sP-selectin with leukocyte count F1 levels in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) chronic (CML) patients. Methods Patients newly diagnosed AML ( n ...

Central nervous system (CNS) relapse is not a rare presentation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as its incidence ranges between 2% and 9%. It manifests with meningeal leukemia, cranial nerve palsies or cerebral mesenchymal myeloid sarcoma. We herein report the case of a 69 year-old female that presented a pseudo-Guillain-Barré syndrome masking an AML CNS relapse. Her symptoms completely resolve...

Although standard therapy for AML has been relatively constant over the past 2 decades, this may be changing with enhanced technologies allowing for the classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) into molecularly distinct subsets. Some specific subsets of AML have an excellent prognosis in response to standard therapy, whereas the poor prognosis of AML associated with specific sets of mutat...

A major challenge in systems biology is to make and analyze models of signaling networks. Here, we suggest the use of switching Boolean networks using threshold Boolean networks; we made a model of the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) signaling network and analyzed this network to find the component that makes the signaling network abnormal by being deregulated. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is char...

Background and Purpose: Leukemia is the most prevalent type of cancer in children and its prognostic factors vary in different geographic locations. The aim of this study was to estimate the 5 years survival rate of children suffering from leukemia in Kerman, Iran and to investigate the factors which might influence it. Materials and Methods: This was a cohort study conducted on...

Homogeneously staining regions (HSR) or double minute chromosomes (dmin) are autonomously replicating extra-chromosomal elements that are frequently associated with gene amplification in a variety of cancers. The diagnosis of leukemia patients was based on characterization of the leukemic cells obtained from bone marrow cytogenetics. This study report two cases, one with Acute Myeloblastic Leuk...

Background: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) contributes to about 20% of leukemia. Most the AML patients suffer from infection.
 Objective: To evaluate rate infection, type and site organisms responsible for infection assess antibiotic sensitivity pattern related mortality in AML.
 Material & Methods: Newly diagnosed aged between 1-18 years, admitted receive induction chemotherapy wer...