Heredity in human leukemia and its relation to cancer : a genetic and clinical study of 209 probands / by Aage Videbæk.

  • Videbæk, Aage, 1915-
Date:
1947
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Credit: Heredity in human leukemia and its relation to cancer : a genetic and clinical study of 209 probands / by Aage Videbæk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The researches which form the basis of the present volume were begun in 1945 during my service as private assistant to Prof. Julius Engelbreth-Holm, M.D., Director of the Uni versity Institute of pathologic Anatomy, and thanks to the excellent facilities for the work afforded me there and by Mr. Tage Kemp, M.D., as Head of the University Institute of human Genetics, they were completed already in 1946, and a preliminary account of the results published in the Acta Medica Scandinavica (vol. 127:26, 1947). I am sincerely indebted both to Prof. Julius Engelbreth-Holm and to Mr. Tage Kemp for their unfailing support and encouragement while the work was in progress. I thank the Heads of the not less than thirty-seven different hospital services in Greater Copenhagen,—medical and chil dren's services, policlinics and the Radium Center,—from which the patient material was collected, for the readiness with which access was given me to the case records on which its documentation is based, and Mr. Johannes Clemmesen, M.D., Director of the Cancer Registry, the excellent card index system of which made it easy for me to trace the cases of leukemia occurred in the last years. The assistance of Mr. Th. Busk , actuary to the Registry, has been of invaluable service to me in the solution of many of the statistical problems in connexion with the work. I cannot deny myself the pleasure of publicly thanking my wife, Iben Videbœk, for the indefatigable interest and spirit with which she has helped me with the many archival re searches and the vast correspondance involved by the work.
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