The Outlook for the Eventual Control of Leukemia

28 January 1954

journal article
research article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 250 (4) , 131-139
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195401282500401

Abstract

IN any attempt to discuss the outlook for the eventual control of leukemia, it may as well be conceded that as of today efforts have been pitifully disappointing. Whether all this is due entirely to the inherent difficulties of the problem or to insufficient application of all available resources is debatable. In any event, to dismiss leukemia as hopeless is far from accurate, since many potential accomplishments are on the horizon, and at least a few important steps have already been made.What can be done to further the cause against what is admittedly the foremost problem in hematology? There . . .

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