Code of Ethics

Chemotherapy with MOPP (nitrogen mustard, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone) was started. This was initially successful, but new exacerbations of the disease occurred, with mainly abdominal manifestations, and the patient succumbed on May 21, 1973, ten months after the diagnosis was made. An autopsy confirmed the initial diagnosis. The pericardium, however, was smooth and shining, and there was no increase in pericardial fluid. The heart was of normal size, no infiltration or other changes were noted in the myocardium or endocardium and the coronary arteries were patent with minimal atheromatous changes. No tumour infiltration was found in the lungs or pleurae, and the mediastinal lymph nodes were not enlarged.