introduction: acute leukemia covers a broad spectrum of hematological clonal diseases originating from the malignant transformation of stem cells. current chemotherapeutic methods result in an incomplete response to primary regimens in 30-40% of cases. methods: 20 patients who had been diagnosed with acute leukemia and who had displayed defined criteria in order to enter our study, were assesse...

background: combination chemotherapy is accepted as a high efficacy treatment for gastric cancer, whereas choice of standard treatment is unclear. multiple chemotherapeutic regimens have been used to achieve higher efficacy and lower toxicity. this study was designed to evaluate the treatment results of advanced gastric cancer with capecitabine and oxaliplatin regimen. subjects and methods : al...

visceral leishmaniasis (vl) is usually treated with pentavalent antimonial drugs given alone or in combination with other drugs. the efficacy of these treatments is diminishing, however, and development of alternative treatments has been recommended.we studied 13 patients with leishmaniasis who were unresponsive to meglumine antimonate, at a dose of 20 mg/kg body weight/per day given for 30 day...