A study of haematological malignancies in the North Indian population - based only on hematomorphology.

Dr Kshama Tiwari; Dr S R Mehdi; Dr Fariya Ali Siddiqui

Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

A study of haematological malignancies in the North Indian population - based only on hematomorphology.

Dr Kshama Tiwari, Dr S R Mehdi, Dr Fariya Ali Siddiqui

Abstract :

Introduction- Hematological malignancies are rising global concern and as developing countries being bearer of much higher proportion of populationwith a not very strong socio-economic conditions are causing higher burden of disease on world health scenario.

Aim- To study the haematological malignancies at a tertiary health care centre Lucknow in India based on age, sex and the type of malignancy with further sub typing wherever possible.

Material & method-A total of 149 cases of haematological malignancies were worked up from the Haematology section, Department of Pathology, Era�s Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh between 2016 to 2018

Result-Out of total 149 cases of haematological malignancies, males were more commonly affected than female swith a ratio of 1.2:1 The most common malignancy was leukemia 92%, followed by lymphomas 5%, MDS 2% and plasma cell dyscrasias 1%.Together myeloid leukemia 84.67% were more common than lymphoid leukemia 15.33% and chronic leukemias were more prevalent with a frequency of 62.04% than acute leukemias constituting only 37.96 % of total.

Conclusion-The commonest haematological malignancy in our study was leukemia, myeloid leukemias were more common than lymphoid; in myeloid CML constituted the substantial proportion of malignancies. Other diagnoses were lymphomas, plasma cell dyscrasias and myelodysplastic syndromes.