[Ways and possibilities in the diagnosis of leukemic diseases]

Malign diseases and thus also leucoses are pathogenetically as well as therapeutically an up to now unsolved problem. Since according to the modern standard of our knowledge a chance of healing at best is to be found in the recognition of the pre-stages and the early stages, therefore, intensive diagnostic efforts are necessary. In these cases the usual hematological methods of examination alone cannot help on. Without doubt, the cytochemical and autoradiographic investigation methods are an essential enrichment in the diagnostics. Hopeful perspectives in the early recognition of leucaemic diseases, however, indicate themselves only by new realizations in the field of cytogenetics and by further research of the metabolic function and the molecular biology of the tumour cells.