In high schools of Long Island, New York, it has been found that Hodgkin's disease clustered in the same schools during the first half of a ten-year interval as in the second half, a circumstance unlikely to be due to chance (Vianna, N.J., and Polan, A.K., New Eng. J. Med., 289:499, 1973). In an accompanying editorial, MacMahon urged that confirmation be sought of this observation by other investigators.
In a speech at a National Conference on Virology and Immunology in Human Cancer held in New York on November 29, 1973, Pike reported that in Oxford, England, he was unable to confirm the earlier findings of Vianna et al. (Ann. Intern. Med., 77:169, 1973) that Hodgkin's disease under 40 years of age was transmitted through an unaffected person. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Cancer.