[Risk assessment in hematologic diseases]

The insurance of one's life and one's capacity to work is only exceptionally possible for patients suffering from haematological diseases. Most of these diseases are still fatal after a predictable and thus a short period, in spite of certain therapeutical results. Exceptions such as the healing of, for instance, a lymphatic leucocythaemia are mentioned. It will be dealt with the approximate frequency of the disease, its characteristics and its prognosis.