Prolonged Remission in Acute Leukaemia.

Acute leukaemia was formerly a rapidly fatal disease, but in the past decade treatment with corticosteroids and antimetabolites has enabled life to be prolonged for many months and remissions can be obtained in the majority of cases, especially in children. Nevertheless survival for more than two years after diagnosis still remains exceptional, and the following two cases of unusually prolonged remission are worthy of record.