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Chemical Immunosuppression and Human Cancer by Israel Penn is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chemical Immunosuppression and Human Cancer about?
A significant advance i n our understanding of cancer is the realization that states of immunodeficiency a r e associated with an increased incidence of malignancies. Malignant cells have been inadvertently transplanted with homografts obtained from donors with cancer. I n the immunosuppressed host such cells have survived, multiplied, and spread. In addition, organ homograft recipients have shown a 5.6% incidence of d e novo malignancies a t some time after transplantation. Organ transplant recipients who had pre-existing malignancies removed developed recurrences or metastases of the original neoplasms in 41% of cases. Malignancies have also been observed in nontransplant patients treated for a variety of disorders. Cancer Chemotherapeutic agents have immunosuppressive side effects; patients have manifested new malignancies while their original tumors were controlled by the antineoplastic drugs. T h e danger of malignancy makes it imperative that immunosuppressive therapy should only be used when strongly indicated, as in organ transplantation, or where other forms of therapy have failed to control the patient's disease. T h e use of the appropriate cancer themotherapeutic agents
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- Author
- Israel Penn
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0008-543X)
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)