Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Prevalence and Risk of Leukemia Reported Cases, Observational Descriptive Statistic from Iraqi Center for Hematology in Baghdad Province

Ruaa Hameed Abdulridha1 , Nada Kadum Jawad2 , Ahmed Tariq Numan2 (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2020

Abstract

Background: Leukemia is one type of blood cancer developed in the bone marrow and other blood-formingorgans. Based on a combination of onset speed and cell origin, leukemia can generally be divided intofour subtypes: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML‚ (chronic lymphocyticleukemia (CLL), and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).Methods: A total of 3102 eligible leukemia cases were documented in the Iraqi Center for Hematology inthe City of Medicine in Baghdad between January 2018 and December 2019. 1402 documented in 2018 and1700 in 2019 for all types of cancer, Patients ages were between 1 year and 90 years, among all leukemiacases, the mostly 36% (n = 730) were aged ?15 years. Results In our study males accounted for a higherproportion of leukemia patients, 58 % compared to 42% females, ALL was the more prevalent type amongthe studied group for both years ; contribute% 55.17 din male %53.45 in female, followed by AML 36.87%vs 40.27% , CLL 5.23% vs 2.22% and CML 2.73% vs 4.06% in male and female respectively. ConclusionIt was observed that the prevalence of leukemia in Baghdad increased between (2018 -2019) from 1402 to1700, the youngest age 15 registered most of leukemia cases. . Males were mostly victim of the disease ascompared to females which were less frequent. It was observed that acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)was most common type of leukemia.

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