Abolghasem Allahyari, Seyed-Mehdi Hashemi, Fahimeh Nazemian, Mohammad Karimi, Mohammad-Reza Kazemi, Masoud Sadeghi
BACKGROUND: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is aggressive cancer, especially in adults as only 20-40% is cured with current treatment regimens. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to evaluate prognostic factors and their effects on survival in ALL patients in the Northeast of Iran. METHODS: In a descriptive and retrospective study from 2009 to 2015, 48 ALL patients referred to hematology-oncology clinic. Age, sex, fever, blood group, type of ALL and consumption of amphotericin B, forms of cytogenetic, survival in the patients, WBC, hemoglobin, and platelet were checked in the first referral for every patient...
August 2016: Iranian Journal of Cancer Prevention