Results of Long-Term Chemotherapy of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Abstract

Therapeutic results of four months’ chemotherapy on 400 cases were already published by Tuberculosis Research Committee supported by Ministry of Health and Welfare on July 18, 1953, in “Nihon Iji Shinpo” (Japan Medical News), No. 1525. Further investigations showed that 4-month chemotherapy was insufficient in the majority of the cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, and so we began clinical trials of 9-month chemotherapy in September, 1953. We have consolidated the individual case reports on the results of the trials, which are reviewed below.