Volume 25 , Issue 2 , December 2023 , Pages 390-398
1 Department of Nursing, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
In 2016, 1 out of 3 cancer patients aged less than 20 years old were diagnosed with
leukemia. Globally, leukemia is the most common malignancy in children and teenagers.
This study aimed to determine leukemia cases' morbidity and mortality rates and their
distribution in different areas of Sulaimani, Iraq, for seven years. This retrospective study
is based on the Hospital Information System children's leukemia data from January 2015
to January 2022 at the Hematology Department, Hiwa Oncology/Hematology Hospital,
Sulaimani, Iraq, using a Cox regression model (Cox, 1972). In 616 recorded children
leukemia cases during seven years, 549(89.1%) of them were alive, and only 67(10.9%)
died. The majority were male, aged between 5-10 years. Nearly 222(36%) of the patients
had A+ blood group, followed by 210(34.1%) O+ blood group, while the minority was ABgroup. The study result shows that age, and blood group, were risk factors for increasing
leukemia chances by Exp (-0.074) =0.929. Leukemia morbidity rises significantly with age,
and leukemia's morbidity rate increases gradually with time. While mortality was
decreased.Depends on the forecastingfor the next 10 years. Both ALL and AML were common
malignancies among diagnosed children.