Lymphatic leukemia and lymphatic leukemoid states in cancer of the stomach.

. By J#{216}RGEN BICHEL, M.D. T HE COEXISTENCE ofleukemia and cancer of the stomach in the same individual has been reported a few times (Burg,6 myeloid leukemia; Zadek,’6 myeloid leukemia; Saupe,’8 aleukemic lymphatic leukemia; Penzold ,2? lymphatic leukemia; Dustin,’#{176} lymphatic leukemia; Kast,’6 lymphatic leukemia; vejda, ’ aleukemic lymphatic leukemia). In Burg’s and Zadek’s cases the leukemic changes in the organs were very slight, which was ascribed to the intense treatment with radio thorium, but otherwise the criteria for the diagnosis of leukemia seem to have been present in all these cases. A case of cancer of the Stomach associated with lymphatic leukemia reported by Bichel4 may possibly have been a leukemic, lymphatic reaction (see later). At the Radium Center for Jutland we have observed 3 cases of cancer of the stomach in association with the blood picture of lymphatic leukemia.