Hodgkin's disease: Long survival in a study of 388 world war II army cases

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B rare condition, it has been difficult in the past to assemble a sufficiently large, homogeneous series for adequate epidemiological and follow-up study. As part of the program of medical follow-up studies on veterans, developed by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC), 437 men have been identified in whom this disease was diagnosed in the Army during World War I1 and for whom tissue specimens are on file at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP). The standard background and medical information obtained at induction into the Army provided a source of epidemiological data recorded prior to the onset of illness, and follow-up information was obtained from records of the Army and the Veterans Administration. Our purpose was to use these various records to study (1) several environmental measures that may be related to the risk of developing Hodgkin's disease;