DOI: 10.15419/bmrat.v5i4.430 Letter to Editor Article History: Author for correspondence: Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani e-mail: amohamadii1361@gmail.com Erythropoietin and treatment of cancer-associated malignant anemia Khadijah Allah Bakeshei 1 , Hamid Salehiniya 2 , Fatemeh Allah Bakeshei 3 and Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani 4,5 1 Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran 2 Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran 3 Student Research Committee, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran 5 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Biomed Press An Open Access Publisher © 2018 The Authors. Published by the BioMedPress under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Received: 21 January 2018 Accepted: 07 March 2018 Published: 18 April 2018 Bakeshei et al. Biomedical Research and Therapy 2018, 5(4):2171-2173 Biomed. Res. Ther. 2018, 5(4):2171-2173 2171