Background: Relapse in leukemic patients is considered as a major cause of treatment failure and a decrease in patient survival rate. This study was conducted to determine the survival rate of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) based on their relapse status.

Materials and Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed on a total of 243 cases of leukemia aged less than 15 years in Shiraz Shahid Faghihi hospital. Data were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier method, log-rank test and Cox regression model.

Results: The 1- and 5-year survival rates for patients without relapsed leukemia were 96.9 and 76.9% and for relapsed leukemia were 82.4 and 28.6%, respectively. Therefore, there was a significant relationship between the relapse occurrence and survival rate among the patients (P=0.001).

Conclusion: The relapse occurrence is one of the main effective factors in survival rate of leukemic patients a five-year survival rate in the patients is less than 30 percent in this center.

Background: Genital cancers are the second most common cancer among women (after breast cancer) in some countries. The aim of this study was to determine the trend of the age-standardized incidence rates for female genital cancers in Fars province during 2003-2009.

Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study, using Fars province cancer registry data, the crude incidence rate per 100,000 people and the age-standardized incidence rates were calculated through direct standardization method and using the world standard population. In addition, to evaluate changes in incidence rate trend, the Cochran-Armitage linear trend test was used.

Results: Results showed that ovarian cancer was estimated as the most common cancer of female genital cancers. Age-standardized incidence rate of all female genital cancers during 2003-2009 were 3.7, 3.77, 5.52, 6.62, 9.75 and 12.4 cases per 100,000 people, respectively.

Conclusion: It seems that the incidence rate of female genital cancers in Fars province is the same as the other regions in Iran which exhibits an ascending trend.