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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Acute lymphocytic leukemia"”.
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Dental Maturation in Children Treated for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
<p>Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is a life-threatening disease primarily affecting children. Treatment currently consists of chemotherapy sometimes in combination with head irradiation. The literature documents the damage of treatment to the teeth (e.g., congenital absence, microdontia, abnormal …
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Functional Status in Children Diagnosed with ALL: Age and Gender Effects
… the outcome of children diagnosed with leukemia. This study examines the relationship between age and gender as predictors of functional status in children following the completion of the induction phase of their treatment (i.e., approximately 5-weeks following their diagnosis) for acute …
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Hierarchical neuropsychological functioning in pediatric survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common types of pediatric cancers. Improvements in treatment within the last 20 years have resulted in reduced mortality and a greater focus upon quality of life. Several researchers have documented neuropsychological impairments in children …
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Trim24 In Normal & Malignant Hematopoiesis
<p>Treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has changed little in the past four decades. For the majority of AML patients, current treatment options include chemotherapy and allogeneic stem cell transplants, which also involves high-dose chemotherapy or radiation treatment. These options have …
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The Non-Medical Expenses Associated with Childhood Cancer
… twenty-two years. Diagnostic categories included acute lymphocytic leukemia (n=7), acute my locytic leukemia (n=2), solid tumors (n=4), brain tumors (n=3), lymphomas (n=3), and histiocytosis (n=l).<br> Categories of expenses included food, travel, lodging, clothing, child care, and miscellaneous …
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Avaliação da prescrição médica na pediatria de um hospital oncológico do estado da Paraíba : elaboração de um guia farmacoterapêutico para promoção do uso racional de antineoplásicos
… the body. The most common childhood cancers are leukemias, central nervous system tumors and lymphomas. The treatment is through chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. To evaluate the medical prescriptions in pediatric an oncology hospital in the state of Paraiba, determining the class of …
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Cognitive, Academic, and Neuropsychological Effects of Treatment
… functioning of post treatment children with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL). Participants consisted of sixteen sibling pairs between the ages of eight and fourteen who were grouped into the high or low group for number of intrathecal chemotherapies (IT), and then regrouped for high or low …
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Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of L-asparaginase in Myeloid Leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a malignant disease of the bone marrow that results in the proliferation and accumulation of dysfunctional myeloid cells and the disruption of the normal hematopoietic process. The high rate of relapse and diversity of the disease at the genetic and epigenetic level …
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C-Rel Is A Transcriptional Target of Mesoderm Inducer In Xenopus Like 1 (Mixl1)
… is seen in human CML ( Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia) in blast crisis, AML (Acute myelogenous leukemia), B cell lymphomas and pediatric ALL (Acute lymphocytic leukemia). (ii) Retroviral transduction of Mixl1 induces AML in murine models. Nonetheless, mechanisms underlying MIXL1 mediated …
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Oxidative Stress Based Strategies For Enhancing The Efficacy of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors (Hdaci)
… of HDACi. To test this hypothesis, we treated acute lymphocytic leukemia cells (ALL) with HDACi and adaphostin (ROS generating agent). The combination of two different HDACi (vorinostat or entinostat) with adaphostin synergistically induced apoptosis in ALL. This synergistic effect was blocked …
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The effect of environmental stress and selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators on chicken and human leukaemia cells
… drugs. GCs are used in treatment of childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), however resistance to therapy and side effects highlight the need for further research. Glucocorticoids exert their function through binding to intracellular protein glucocorticoid receptor (GR). It is believed that …