Original Research Report
:: Pages 1-6
A phase II study of gemcitabine combined with vinorelbine as first-line chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer
Mohamed Meshref, Samir Shehata, Ebtesam Saad, Salah Elmesidi, Yousri Goda, Hanaa Koheil, Heba Elzawahri, Alaa Kandil, Thoraya Abdelhamid, Mounir Zaki
Assiut University Cancer Centre, Assiut; Kasr El-Einy Cancer Centre, Cairo University, Cairo; Alexandria University Cancer Centre, Alexandria; Alexandria Ministry of Health Cancer Centre, Alexandria; National Cancer Institute, Ministry of Health Insurance Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt
Original research report
:: Pages 7-12
A meta-analysis of highly active anti-retroviral therapy for treatment of plasmablastic lymphoma
Bing Guan, Xinhua Zhang, Henhui Ma, Hangbo Zhou, Xiaojun Zhou
Nanjing University, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, China
Original research report
:: Pages 13-18
A phase II study of high-dose celecoxib and metronomic 'low-dose' cyclophosphamide and methotrexate in patients with relapsed and refractory lymphoma
Naser Abd El Bary, Tarek Hashem, Hasan Metwally, Ashraf Abd El Ghany, Hager Abd El Mageed
Menoufia Faculty of Medicine, Shebein El Koum, Menoufia Governorate, Egypt
Original research report
:: Pages 19-23
Gibbon ape leukemia virus transduction of peripheral blood CD34+ derived dendritic cells
Leili Moezzi, Kamran Alimoghaddam, Alireza Ardjmand, Somayeh Shahrokhi, Seyed Hamidolah Ghaffari, Nadia Bagheri, Bahram Chardouli, Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh
Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Original research report
Identification of a novel peptide derived from the M-phase phosphoprotein 11 (MMP11) leukemic antigen recognized by human CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Ghofran Al Qudaihi, Cynthia Lehe, Anne Dickinson, Khaled Eltayeb, Walid Rasheed, Naeem Chaudhri, Mahmoud Aljurf, Said Dermime
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Brief Communication
:: Pages 34-38
Feasibility study of dose-dense biweekly administered pemetrexed in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
Christos Emmanouilides, Theodora Yermetaki, Anastasia Serpanou, Evdoxia Sapountzi, Polyxeni Mantziari, Iraklis Titopoulos, Dimitrios Filippou
From the Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
Case Report
:: Pages 39-41
Involvement of bone marrow with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma
Raihan Sajid, Adnan Qureshi
From the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Case Report
:: Pages 42-46
Megakaryocytic blast crisis at presentation in a pediatric patient with chronic myeloid leukemia
Ali Al-Shehri, Amal Al-Seraihy, Tarek M. Owaidah, Asim F. Belgaumi
From the aDepartment of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and bDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Case Report
:: Pages 47-50
Carcinosarcoma of the pleura and lung metastasized from a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus
Chien-Wen Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Chin-Jung Lin, Wann-Cherng Perng, Jia-Hong Chen
From the Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Images and Diagnosis
:: Pages 51-52
Acute myeloid leukemia presenting with a large subgaleal hematoma
Youssef A. Al-Tonbary, Ahmed Mansour, Ashraf Fouda
From the Hematology/Oncology/BMT Unit Mansoura University Children Hospital Mansoura, Dakahlia, Egypt
