Acute promyelocytic leukemia

My research topic is about Leukemia. My goal is to inform about what leukemia is, the causes, the risk factors, the history of the disease, how it is treated, and how it could be treated in the future to increase curability and reduce mortality. My focus is going to be on a specific form of leukemia, called Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, or AML3. It is called AML3 because it is the M3 subtype of a form of leukemia called Acute Myelocytic Leukemia. Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow

he name of this genetic disorder is called acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). This disorder causes an overgrowth in the promyelocytes, A promyelocytes is the cells in your bone marrow. This leads to a shortage of red and white blood cells and platelets in the body. In this disorder the Chromosome 13 is lost completely, There is no translocation between 7 and 15, 11,15 and 17, and 9 and 18. The mutation that causes this is the PML gene on Chromosome 15 and the RARA gene on Chromosome 17. This is

Imagine being born just so you can give up your cells and organs to your sister with Leukemia. That is the life of Anna Fitzgerald, and her sister Kate. The book I read is titled “My Sister's Keeper”, the title is the same for the movie. Personally, the movie was better for me because I like being able to see things visually and in detail. The way the book explained the characters I was really able to imagine them in my head and in the movie it wasn't so much easier to understand what was going on

Introduction The myeloproliferative neoplasms carry an inherent risk of transformation to an accelerated-phase disease, as well as ultimately to acute leukemia. The likelihood of disease evolution is mitigated by various clinical, biological and genetic factors, as well as the by the underlying initial MPN diagnosis. Here we review the genetic and clinical risk factors for blast-phase progression of chronic-phase Phliadelphia-chromosome negative MPNs, as well as therapeutic outcomes to date. We

was his name, he touched people’s lives and they’ll never be the same, he built a hospital with the help of gods will, to save the lives of children who are deadly ill.” A. She wrote this poem after she found out the she had acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of ten. When she found out she said thoughts flew her mind making her think that what was she going to miss? She thought that she’ll miss school, her graduation, growing up and going to college, falling in love, getting married

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society History of the Organization The nonprofit Leukemia and Lymphoma society came about from the sorrow of a couple whose son lost his life in 1944. His name was RobbieRobert Roesler de Villiers, part of a well-off family based in New York. Leukemia was the cause of his death at the early age of 16. Following their son’s death, his parents, Rudolph and Antoinette, began an organization in 1949 under his name. The product of their efforts was run out of a Wall Street office

post-HSCT supportive care2,3. HSCT is a potential curative treatment for a number of malignant hematologic diseases such as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma which tend to more commonly affect the elderly population. For instance, according to the SEER database, the median age of diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and MDS are 67 and 70 years respectively. Despite these findings, the number of patients over the age of 65 undergoing allogeneic HSCT remains low4. An

United States population, I took a particular interest in this unusual condition. My paternal grandfather – a farmer and a military veteran – was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 1996 at the age of 72, which was his cause of death in 1999. Several years prior to this he was diagnosed with what was once referred to as “pre-leukemia”, or myelodysplastic syndrome. Being a somewhat uncommon condition, only about 13,000 new cases appear in the United States each year, and this number is growing

they can believe in. Yet, there comes a time when every individual must reflect on their purpose, leaving themselves to their own intimate thoughts to question if God really does listen? Approximately a year ago, my father was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. It is impossible to forget the empathy expressed in the doctor's eyes as he explained what the word truly entailed. At first, I was far too distraught to even utter the word “cancer”. For the longest time, I believed that words gave efficacy

Literature Review Assignment Template Student Name: Jessica Briones Date of Submission: September 16, 2017 A. Discussion of Database Search 1. Search terms (1-word term plus a “2-word” term) 1-word term: Chemotherapy 2-word term: “Childhood Cancer” 2. Summary of database search (up to 500 words): My two-word search term is “childhood cancer” and my one-word search term is chemotherapy. My initial search was through Scopus. I searched both of the terms using the Boolean Operator “AND” to