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Six fascicles ( 10,000 copies each ) of the `` Atlas Of Tumor Pathology '' were completed during the period of this report.

The American Registry Of Pathology

This consists of 25 individual registries, two of which were added during fiscal years 1959-1960 ( The Registry Of Forensic Pathology and The Testicular Tumor Registry ).

These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

The staff utilized the collected material in these registries for numerous lectures to national and international meetings, exhibits, and published studies.

During the period of this report, 37,470 new cases were entered into the various registries.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.