GENETICS OF MOUSE LEUKEMIA

Abstract

Leukemia is a tumorous disease in which the malignant growth is limited to white blood cells. These wild cells, constantly multiplying, may enter any or all organs and parts of the body; they often cause excessive enlargement of spleen and lymph nodes and enormously increase the number in the blood. The disease in its various manifestations is virtually identical in mouse and man. The only known method of direct transmission from a spontaneous case is by transplantation of living leukemic cells into a susceptible animal. The following talk zvas presented in the Cancer Symposium of the Section on Medical Sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Atlantic City, December, 1936.—EDITOR.