As chronic myeloid leukemia is rare in children, most data on imatinib mesylate therapy is derived from adult studies. We retrospectively evaluated pediatric (<14 years) patients with Ph+ chronic myeloid leukemia treated with imatinib mesylate, from January 2003 through June 2008. Of the 12 chronic myeloid leukemia patients (2% of all leukemias) 11 were in chronic phase while one had myeloid bl...

background: leptin has been implicated in the differentiation and proliferation of hematopoietic cells. leukemia inhibitory factor (lif) may play an important role, along with interleukin-6 (il-6) and granulocyte colony stimulating factor (g- csf), in the regulation of early hematopoietic stem cells. the aim of the study was to evaluate serum level of leptin, lif, and il-6 in myeloid leukemia p...

BACKGROUND Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia are the most common types of adult leukemia. However, it is rare for the same patient to suffer from both. Richter's transformation to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is frequently observed in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Purine analog therapy and the presence of trisomy 12, and CCND1 gene rearrangement have been linked to incr...

Acute leukemia which is the most common cancer in children is a heterogeneous group of clonal malignancies. The conversion of the leukemic cell lineage during the course of the disease or later is termed lineage switch. It has been rarely reported in the literature. In leukemia lineage switch, conversions from lymphoblastic leukemia to myeloid leukemia or vice versa are reported. Herein, we rep...

background: environment of basrah is seriously contaminated with chemical leukomogens as a result of recent military conflicts. many studies in the past few years have reported an increase in the incidence of leukemia in basrah. this study was designed to study the risk and pattern of childhood leukemia in basrah, iraq, from 2003 to 2007.materials and methods: this hospital-based cancer registr...

Summary Chronic myeloid leukemia is nowadays associated with a good prognosis and an excellent life expectancy. However, certain levels of responses have to be achieved the various available tyrosine kinase inhibitors at time points during treatment otherwise adequate diagnostic therapeutic actions initiated. This paper will focus on these issues.

The incidence of certain malignancies is significantly higher after organ transplant. However, there are rare reports of chronic myeloid leukemia in the posttransplant setting. The average reported interval between a transplant and the diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia is 44 months (range, 10- 96 mo). We report 2 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia within 1 year of a kidney transplant, w...

Chronic myeloid leukemia is a neoplasia resulting from a translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 producing the BCR-ABL hybrid known as the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph). In chronic myeloid leukemia a proliferation of malignant myeloid cells occurs in the bone marrow due to excessive tyrosine kinase activity. In order to maintain homeostasis, natural killer cells, by means of receptors, identi...

24Boyse, E. A., L. J. Old, G. Geering, and E. Stockert, unpublished observations. 25 Cells from 4 cases of human leukemia (acute leukemia in a child, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, and chronic lymphatic leukemia) were obtained through the courtesy of Dr. B. Clarkson, Dr. L. Murphy, and Dr. C. Tan of Sloan-Kettering Institute. These cells did not acquire sensitivity to Rausche...

Background: Environment of Basrah is seriously contaminated with chemical leukomogens as a result of recent military conflicts. Many studies in the past few years have reported an increase in the incidence of leukemia in Basrah. This study was designed to study the risk and pattern of childhood leukemia in Basrah, Iraq, from 2003 to 2007.Materials and Methods: This hospital-based cancer registr...