Risk factors and prognosis analysis of acute myeloid leukemia in children.

Purpose: To explore the efficacy and related prognostic factors of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in children except acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).

Methods: The clinical data of 89 non-APL children with AML treated in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. The remission status was analyzed after chemotherapy, the long-term survival was evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier method, and the influencing factors for the prognosis were detected using univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses.

Cold atmospheric plasma as a potential tool for multiple myeloma treatment.

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a fatal and incurable hematological malignancy thus new therapy need to be developed. Cold atmospheric plasma, a new technology that could generate various active species, could efficiently induce various tumor cells apoptosis. More details about the interaction of plasma and tumor cells need to be addressed before the application of gas plasma in clinical cancer treatment.