Abstract
1) We have experienced nine cases of leukemia in two years and a half from 1966 to 1968 at Kochi National Hospital.
Seven of these cases were acute leukemia, consisted of six myelogenous cases and one lymphogenous, and they all died.
Two out of nine cases were chronic leukemia, one of which was a child who has attended school in good health in past three years.
2) Acute leukemic cases showed a tendency to afflict young and middle-aged.
3) Young-aged patients complained of pain more than the other age cases.
4) Three out of seven acute cases showed no sign of leukemia at the first medical examination by us.
5) Concerning the thrapy, many kinds of drug and fresh blood-transfusion wree used to relief the symptoms and to prolong the course of the disease.
6) Most of cases died of bleeding and circulatory insufficiency.
