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Fourteen patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma were evaluated immunologically prior to standard radiotion therapy. All had elevations of serum IgA, ranging from 300 mg/100 ml to 1000 mg/100 ml, with a mean value of 549 mg/100 ml. Seven patients demonstrated depression of cell-mediated immunity as measured by delayed hypersensitivity skin tests, total lymphocyte count, in vitro stimulation with PHA, and T-cell rosette formation. Elevation of serum IgA associated with depression of cell mediated immunity may be characteristic of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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PMID:Elevated IGA in carcinoma of the nasopharynx. 112 83

A pilot study on the immune response in patients with carcinoma of the head and neck has been made. The clinical behaviour of such neoplasia is reasoned as being partly determined by the immunological response. If prognosis is related to competence of the immune system then this parameter should be assessed. DNCB (di-nitro-chloro-benzene) skin sensitization and serial lymphocyte transformation studies were performed on all patients whose progress was studied for at least two years. On analysing the results of survival, patients could be divided into two groups--DNCB positive and DNCB negative. The negative patients could be further subdivided; those with a lymphocyte stimulation index of over fifteen; and those beneath this level--the former had a much better prognosis than the latter. Also, such cancer patients were shown to have both cellular and serum factors causing depression of lymphocyte transformation. In the light of all findings, a future programme of investigation is proposed.
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PMID:On the immunology of head and neck cancer--a prognostic index. Preliminary communication. 118 59

The effect of lithium on iodine kinetics after oral 131I-iodide was studied in an athyreotic patient with follicular thyroid carcinoma. Lithium decreased the disappearance rate of 131I from the whole body and from a tumor mass in the patient's thigh from control values of 0.126/day, respectively, while having only a minimal effect on the rate of 131I disappearance from blood. The increased tumor 131I retention would be expected to increase the therapeutic:toxic ratio of 131I. However, a subsequent therapeutic dose of 131I-iodide given with lithium was accompanied by an unanticipated increase in blood 131I and, therefore, in whole body radiation, resulting in significant bone marrow depression. Although lithium may be a useful adjunct in 131I therapy of functional thyroid carcinoma, it must be used cautiously in future studies.
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PMID:Use of lithium as an adjunct to radioiodine therapy of thyroid carcinoma. 124 78

Serum immunoglobulins, circulating immune-complexes and blocking effect of patients' sera on normal T lymphocytes were studied in 10 patients with chronic cervicitis, 25 with carcinoma cervix and 20 age matched healthy women. No significant difference was observed between the healthy controls and chronic cervicitis. In carcinoma, there was a significant increase in IgG and IgA in stage I, IgG and IgM in stage II and in all the three immunoglobulins in stage III as compared to chronic cervicitis. Circulating immune-complexes and T cell depression were also found to be increased and stage related. After radiotherapy, both these parameters and IgG were found to be significantly reduced. The study of these immune parameters seems to be a promising aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with carcinoma cervix.
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PMID:A study of humoral factors in carcinoma cervix. 145 47

The phenotypic distribution and immune reactivity of T lymphocyte subpopulations from peripheral blood of 50 patients with urological cancer were determined. Included were 36 patients with bladder transitional cell carcinoma, 7 patients with renal cell carcinoma and 7 patients with prostatic carcinoma. Thirty-eight age-matched patients with benign urological disease served as controls. A depression in immune competence was found in the group of male patients with infiltrating bladder cancer. In more than 50% of the patients with infiltrating bladder carcinoma, the T helper (CD4) subset was reduced with a concomitant inversion in the CD4/CD8 ratio and impairment in the T cell function as determined by the ability to proliferate upon phytohemagglutinin and concanavalin stimulation. Patients with superficial bladder carcinoma, as well as those with renal cell carcinoma had an immune profile similar to that of the control group. The group of patients with prostatic carcinoma had higher mean CD4/CD8 ratios than the control group, resulting from decreased suppressor/cytotoxic cells. Our results have indicated that the characterization of T cell subset and lymphocyte activity correlated well with the histopathologic state of patients with bladder carcinoma. Thus, the determination of the CD4/CD8 ratio may prove a valuable method for monitoring patients with bladder carcinoma, in addition to serial urine cytology, random urothelial biopsies and flow cytometry.
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PMID:T lymphocyte subsets and function in the peripheral blood of patients with urological cancer. 157 45

Gingival health and salivary gland function were evaluated for a period of 5 years in 14 patients who received head and neck irradiation for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (seven patients; total dose greater than 60 Gy, nasopharyngeal field) and Hodgkin's lymphoma (seven patients; total dose less than 50 Gy, "mantle" field). Plaque index (PII), bleeding index (BI), gingival recession (GR), whole saliva flow rate (WSFR), left parotid sialographic morphology, and salivary gland radioisotopic activity were assessed immediately before radiotherapy and annually thereafter. The nasopharyngeal group had perfect correlation between postradiation depression of WSFR and the sialographic and scintigraphic scores (R = -1.00 and -0.96, respectively). The degree of gland dysfunction correlated negatively with BI and the BI/PII ratio (r = -0.497) and with GR (r = 0.681). The same correlations were noted in the group with Hodgkin's lymphoma during the first 3 years of follow-up. However, recovery of parotid gland function (WSFR and scintigraphic scores) and morphology (sialographic scores) and return to the preradiation relation between WSFR and both BI/PII ratio (r = 0.75) and GR (r = -0.71) were noted in the fourth year. The differences between the nasopharyngeal and Hodgkin's lymphoma groups are attributable to the delineation of the radiation field employed in each group.
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PMID:Gingival health and salivary function in head and neck-irradiated patients. A five-year follow-up. 157 3

In a 67-year-old man referred for investigation of an abdominal mass, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy incidentally revealed a polypoid lesion with a central depression in the duodenum. The abdominal mass causing gastric compression was shown by ultrasonography and CT scan to be cyst anterior to the pancreas. Biopsy of the duodenal lesion, however, was suggestive of carcinoma. Strip biopsy was therefore performed. Histological examination showed a tubular adenocarcinoma with invasion limited to the mucosa, and indicated that complete endoscopic resection had been achieved. Follow-up over ten months did not reveal recurrence of the tumor. Strip biopsy would appear to be a safe and efficient method for management of early gastrointestinal tract cancer also in the duodenum.
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PMID:Use of strip biopsy in a case of early duodenal cancer. 158 43

We have evaluated the analgesic effect of continuous intrathecal administration of midazolam in 4 patients using a three-level score (no change, amelioration, and marked improvement). The secondary effects of this drug were also investigated (sedation, nausea, vomiting, respiratory depression, urinary retention, motor dysfunction). In one patient midazolam was the only drug administered, whereas in three patients this drug was associated with morphine. In one patient with a peripheral arteriopathy, midazolam at a dose of 12 mg/day was unable to equal the analgesic effect achieved with 0.4 mg of morphine. The remaining three patients had carcinoma and received a continuous intrathecal perfusion of morphine at increasing daily doses up to 12; 4,8; and 6 mg/day, respectively without pain relief. In these patients the association of midazolam at respective doses of 9; 4-8; and 6 mg/day induced amelioration in one patient and marked improvement in the two other patients. Midazolam did not change the heart rate, respiratory rate, arterial blood pressure, nor body temperature. We believe that the analgesic effect of intrathecal administration of midazolam is due to its coupling with the ionophore complex GABA-spinal benzodiazepine that in turn produces an increment of the GABA amino butyric acid at this level.
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PMID:[Intrathecal administration of morphine, midazolam, and their combination in 4 patients with chronic pain]. 159 51

It is reported the case of a 39 year old male, non homosexual, seropositive to HIV due to polytransfusion, without AIDS diagnostic criteria and with a severe depression in cellular immunity, expressed as lowering in CD4+ T cells, and in the CD4+/CD8+ ratio, who showed, without having any risk-factors, a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. We review the cases reported in the scientific literature on the association between squamous-cell carcinoma and AIDS or HIV infection.
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PMID:[Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and HIV infection]. 162 Sep 23

Thirty six cases of carcinoma breast were subjected to the assessment of CMI status by estimating different T lymphocyte parameters. The mean TPLC, T% and TTC in case of carcinoma were 1955/mm3 blood, 41% and 825/mm3 blood respectively which are evidently depressed than that of controls. This depression is progressive and clinical stage related, the least being in stage I and the most being in stage IV. The infiltrating varieties revealed a significant depression of T lymphocyte values than the non-infiltrating ones. Among the infiltrating types, IDC (T-38.9%) and Muc. Ca (T-29.1%) revealed most significant depression, thereby indicating worst prognosis. Six cases of IDCS, 2 cases of Medullary Ca and a solitary case of comedo Ca revealed a significant lymphocyte infiltration into the tumour cell mass proper. There was a depressed lymphocyte values but of lesser magnitude indicating a better prognosis. 6 cases without metastasis (clinical St. I) showed a lesser degree of depressed CMI than the cases with metastasis.
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PMID:Cell mediated immune status in carcinoma breast. 166 79


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