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Recent Developments in the Studies of a Mouse Leukemia Virus

Ludwik Gross, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1962;109(4):375-378.

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The nature of human leukemia is still obscure; no direct and convincing evidence is yet available to prove experimentally that leukemia in humans is of viral origin. And yet, results of experiments performed during the past decade on mouse leukemia, in addition to previous experimental studies performed on chicken leukosis, strongly suggest that leukemia and allied diseases in other species also, including humans, may be of viral origin.¹ The various forms of leukemia developing in mice and in man are so similar in their clinical course, and morphology, that it would be quite difficult to assume that leukemia in humans is a disease fundamentally different from that observed in mice.

In a large and mixed population of mice, the incidence of leukemia is, in general, low. In this respect it is not unlike the generally low incidence of leukemia in man. However, families of mice having a higher incidence . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cancer Research Unit Veterans Administration Hospital Bronx, N.Y.

Footnotes
The studies discussed in this Editorial were carried out with the aid of grants contributed by the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund and American Cancer Society.

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