Abstract
In the course of the last twenty years I have observed at the Cancer Division of the Montefiore Hospital, at the New York City Cancer Institute and in my private practice more than 500 cases of lymphoma malignum (Hodgkin's disease) and lymphosarcoma. The patients were studied clinically for months and years and in the majority of cases the study was accompanied by a complete pathologic analysis of the surgical and the postmortem material. Through those years of parallel study of lymphoma malignum and lymphosarcoma on the one hand and of all clinical types of carcinoma and sarcoma on the other, I have gained the conviction that lymphoma malignum (Hodgkin's disease) and lymphosarcoma are nearly identical in their clinical manifestations, that they both represent a special type of malignancy and that the peculiarities in the structure and clinical manifestations of lymphoma malignum (Hodgkin's disease) as compared with other types of malignancy

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