Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine

This study focuses on estimating prevalence for hematological malignancies based on collecting data through this cross-section study of 905 hematological cases attending in the outpatient clinic at Clinical Hematology Unit of Cairo University in the period between 1st of November 2016 to 1st of March 2017. Our study is done to highlight the demographic features, of hematological disease cases in Egypt. We do a survey to all outpatient clinic and evaluate prevalence of hematological malignancy from all the attending patients, it is important to mention that childhood cases were under represented in the present study as the information was obtained from the adult hematology department.In our study we found that the overall observed prevalence rate of hematological malignancy in adult outpatient clinic attending Kasralainy Hospital were 345/905 (38%) from all patient attending the outpatient clinic.The overall prevalence of myeloid malignancies.187/345 (54%) myeloid malignancies with male to female ratio 1.03:1, which are more prevalent than lymphoid malignancies158/345 (45.7%) with male to female ratio 2.2:1.We found that there was a statistically highly significant difference as regards age grouping, sex,hemoglobin level, and PLT count, Pallor, bleeding, sweating, significant weight loss, (p<0.01), withstatistically significant difference (p<0.05) with fever, while there was no significant difference as regard total leukocyte count, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and bone aches, on comparing lymphoid and myeloid malignancies subgroups

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