Special Report
:: Pages 1-30
Recommended Screening and Preventive Practices for Long-Term Survivors after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Navneet S. Majhail,ab J. Douglas Rizzo,c Stephanie J. Lee,d Mahmoud Aljurf,e Yoshiko Atsuta,f Carmem Bonfim,g Linda J. Burns,h Naeem Chaudhri,e Stella Davies,i Shinichiro Okamoto,j Adriana Seber,k Gerard Socie,l Jeff Szer,m Maria Teresa Van Lint,n John R Wingard,o Andre Tichellip for the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT), European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), Asia-Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group (APBMT), Bone Marrow Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand (BMTSANZ), East Mediterranean Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group (EMBMT) and Sociedade Brasileira de Transplante de Medula Ossea (SBTMO)
From the aNational Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, USA; bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA; cCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA; dFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA; eKing Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; fNagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; gUniversidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil; hUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; iCincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA; jKeio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; kInstituto de Oncologia Pediatrica GRAACC Unifesp, São Paulo, Brazil; lHôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France; mRoyal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; nSan Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy; oUniversity of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA; pUniversity Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Original Research Report
:: Pages 31-35
Endometrial stromal sarcoma: prognostic factors and impact of adjuvant therapy in early stages
Rachid Tanz, Tarik Mahfoud, Aziz Bazine, Rachid Aassab, Nourredine Benjaafar, Brahim El Khalil El Gueddari, Mohamed Ichou, Hassan Errihani
From the Academic - Military Hospital, Hay Ryad, Rabat, Morocco
Original Research Report
:: Pages 36-41
A randomized trial of brief treatment of early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma: Is it effective?
Rasha Hamdy Hamed, Abeer Hussein Anter, Ibrahim Aly Awad
From the Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura Egypt
Original Research Report
:: Pages 42-48
A phase 2 study of the combination of gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer previously treated with anthracyclines with/without taxanes
Hanna Kohail,a Samir Shehata,b Omar Mansour,c Youssri Gouda,a Rabbab Gaafar,c Thoraya Abdel Hamid,c Saiid El Nowieam,a Ahmed Al Khodary,c Heba El Zawahry,c Ahmed Abdel Wareth,c Iman Abdel Halim,d Fouad Abou Taleb,e Emad Hamada,f Mohsen Barsoum,c Mohamed Abdullah,f Mohamed Meshreff
From the aCancer Centre, Alexandria University, Alexandria, bCancer Centre, Assiut University, Assiut, cNational Cancer Institute, Cairo, dCancer Centre, Mansoura University, Mansoura, eCancer Centre, Zagazig University, Zagazig, and fKasr ElEiny Cancer Centre, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Original Research Report
:: Pages 49-53
A simplified method for autologous stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma
Mohamed-Amine Bekadja,a Mohamed Brahimi,a Soufi Osmani,a Abdessamed Arabi,a Rachid Bouhass,a Nabil Yafour,a Badra Entasoltan,a Walid Rasheed,b Fadela Attafa
From the aService Hématologie et Thérapie Cellulaire, Oran, Algeria bKing Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center
, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Original Research Report
:: Pages 54-59
Prevalence of HBV and HCV infection among multi-transfused Egyptian thalassemic patients
Ahmed Kamel Mansour,a Rabab Mahfouz Aly,b Sohier Yahia Abdelrazek,a Doaa Mahmoud Elghannam,b Sherin Mohamed Abdelaziz,b Dina Abdalhalim Shahine,c Nadia Mohamed Elmenshawy,b Ahmad Mohamad Darwisha
From the aDepartments of Pediatrics, bClinical Pathology and cInternal Medicine, Mansoura School of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt
Case Report
:: Pages 60-65
Choroidal metastasis as the sole initial presentation of metastatic lung cancer
Samer Salah,a Jamal Khader,b Yacoub Yousef,c Ahmed Salem,b Maysa Al-Hussaini,d Rafid Al-Asadye
From the Departments of aInternal Medicine, bRadiation Oncology, cSurgery/Ophthalmology, dPathology and Laboratory Medicine, eRadiology, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
Letter To The Editor
:: Pages 70-71
Bone mineral density in ex-thalassemic pediatric patients
Amir Ali Hamidieh,a Zohreh Hamidi,b Leila Nedaeifard,a Ramin Heshmat,b Kamran Alimoghaddam,a Bagher Larijani,b Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh,a Mohammad-Reza Mohajeri-Tehranib
From the aHematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center and the bEndocrinology and Metabolish Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Case Report
:: Pages 66-68
JAK2 mutation-negative essential thrombocythemia in a child presenting with cerebral venous thrombosis
Afaq Ahmad Khan,a Vijay Kumar,b Ish Anand,a Meet Kumar,c Prashant Sharma,d Manorama Bhargavaa
From the aSir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi bDepartment of Pathology, Hematology Unit, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, cClinical Hematology, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata, dHematology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India
Letter To The Editor
:: Pages 69-70
Incidence of gynecological malignancy among Saudi population
Ahmed Nazer, Ismail A. Al-Badawi
From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
