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Inhibition of human lymphoma cell-line colony formation (ICF) was induced by peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) from patients with lymphoma and apparently healthy cancer hospital personnel. PBL from patients with non-lymphoma neoplasms and from normal blood bank donors did not elicit ICF. ICF was most marked when PBL were cocultivated for 24 hours in a ratio of 1000:I with target lymphoma cells that had been cultured for 24 hours before exposure. No significant ICF was observed when target cells consisted of human neurogenic sarcoma, melanoma, colon adenocarcinoma, or Chinese hamster cells. It is possible that ICF is elicited by PBL sensitized to a cross-reacting antigen present on the membrane of cultured lymphoma cells. This antigen may be synthesized by a transmissible etiologic factor.
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PMID:Inhibition of human lymphoma cell-line colony formation by lymphocytes from patients with lymphoma and cancer hospital employees. 77 48

Distinct air bronchograms were seen in a solitary pulmonary nodule, a metastasis from a malignant melanoma of the scalp. Such a finding has been reported previously only in alveolar-cell carcinoma, pulmonary lymphoma, and pulmonary pseudolymphoma.
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PMID:Metastatic melanoma. Another cause of a solitary pulmonary nodule with an air bronchogram. 84 85

There is increasing evidence that the use of hyperthermia alone or in conjunction with other modalities may improve the therapeutic effectiveness of treatment of cancer. The present clinical studies were carried out to evaluate the response of normal and tumor tissues in patients with various cutaneous malignant lesions to repeated courses of hyperthermia alone or in conjunction with radiation therapy. Thirty-six patients with malignant cutaneous lesions (mycosis fungoides, Kaposi sarcoma, malignant melanoma, lymphoma cutis, and other metastatic skin lesions) have been studied. The heating methods used were: 1) temperature regulated water bath immersion; and 2) radiofrequency inductive heating. The normal tissue effects of the combined treatments of radiation and hyperthermia do not appear to be greater than those treated with radiation alone. The initial tumor regression rates were faster in patients treated with radiation plus hyperthermia than in radiation alone, particularly in patients with Kaposi sarcoma and lymphoma cutis. Among ten locally recurrent patients, seven showed significant prolonged benefits achieved by the combined treatments as compared with the radiation therapy alone. Fractionated hyperthermia alone caused significant tumor regression in four out of five patients. Possible mechanisms leading to the improved results from the combined treatments are discussed.
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PMID:Local tumor hyperthermia in combination with radiation therapy. 1. Malignant cutaneous lesions. 88 May 48

We have studied the growth in vitro of a lymphoma x fibroblast hybrid and several melanoma x fibroblast hybrids in which malignancy is suppressed. The parental cells, the hybrids, and malignant segregants derived from the hybrids were analysed for serum requirement, cloning efficiency in soft agarose, density-dependent inhibition of growth, and secretion of plasminogen-activating enzyme. One malignant segregant from the lymphoma x fibroblast cross was found by a number of criteria to have a more highly 'transformed' phenotype than the hybrid from which it was derived. However, in the case of the melanoma x fibroblast crosses, none of the parameters examined could be correlated in a direct way with malignancy.
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PMID:Growth in vitro of tumour cell x fibroblast hybrids in which malignancy is suppressed. 89 66

Asaley is an L-leucine derivative of sarcolysin which is more active against some rodent tumors. Studies in the USSR demonstrated activity in patients with ovarian and breast carcinoma, Hodgkin's disease, and multiple myeloma. This study in 73 evaluable patients indicated that an appropriate oral dose for patients with adequate bone marrow is 800 mg/M2/day X 4 days at 5-6 week intervals. The most common toxicities were myelosuppression, nausea, and vomiting. Antitumor activity was observed in 2 of 24 evaluable patients with melanoma, and stabilization of previously progressive disease was observed in patients with adenocarcinoma of the colon, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, breast carcinoma, and thyroid carcinoma. Responses were minimal and of short duration but most of the patients had received extensive prior therapy.
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PMID:Clinical evaluation of Asaley. 92 33

Computed tomography has been found to be a more accurate diagnostic tool in the analysis of brain metastases than radionuclide scanning. Of 1,100 patients studied by CT scan, 57 showed evidence of intracerebral metastasis, and 14 showed evidence of hydrocephalus. Density levels below that of normal brain tissue were found in cases of metastases from the lung (13), breast (7), melanoma (4), kidney (3), lymphoma (3), and nasopharynx (1); levels above normal were found in cases of metastases from melanoma (8), lung (3), colon (3), chorionic carcinoma (2), osteogenic sarcoma (1), and kidney (1).
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PMID:Computed tomography in metastatic disease of the brain. 94

Review of more than 2,000 liver-spleen scans revealed 18 cases of focal splenic defects. Three major categories are defined: lymphoma, infarctions, and metastatic tumor. Clinical presentation is important in determining the precise etiology, and a differential diagnosis is presented. It appears that: (a) reticulum cell carcinoma is as likely to cause defects as is Hodgkin's disease; (b) splenic infarction is related to pancreatic disease through the splenic vein; and (c) malignant melanoma is the most common secondary deposit as detected by scanning.
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PMID:Focal splenic defects. 98 68

This is a case of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma with a rare clinical evolution. A first metastasis causes paraplegia; a second causes obstructive jaundice; a third subcutaneous metastasis is resected; the primitive tumor is discovered accidentally in the right calf, 8 weeks after the beginning of the disease. The literature is reviewed. Diagnosis of the alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is often difficult because of confusion with a lymphoma, another type of sarcoma, a melanoma or even an epithelial tumor. The surgeon who removes a superficial node, obviously malignant, in a young subject, should think of this type of tumor. A multidisciplinary treatment associating radical resection, radio- and chemotherapy improves the very poor prognosis of this sarcoma.
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PMID:[A propos a case of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (author's transl)]. 98 37

In the murine model presented for tumor-associated immune suppression, normal BALB/c mice displayed significant foodpad swelling when sensitized on the flank with 2 mg dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide and challenged in a footpad with 0.05 mg DNCB 10 days later. This reaction in challenged footpads seemed to be a classic delayed hypersensitivity reaction, since it took 24 hours to develop and included an extensive mononuclear infiltrate. The reaction was transmissible from sensitized to normal mice by the transfer of lymphoid cells but not to serum. When sensitized 10 days after tumor inoculation, mice bearing either an allogeneic melanoma or a syngeneic lymphoma or fibrosarcoma did not demonstrate delayed hypersensitivity to DNCB.
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PMID:Effects of murine tumors on delayed hypersensitivity to dinitrochlorobenzene. I. Description of anergy caused by transplanted tumors. 100 43

A transparent acrylic hamster cheek-pouch chamber was used to investigate the elaboration of a tumor angiogenic factor (TAF) by human cutaneous neoplasms; direct tumor implantations, transfilter diffusion, and soluble tumor extracts were used in the study. A diffusible and filterable TAF was extracted from cutaneous tumors and produced distinctive patterns of sequential vasodilatation, tortuosity, and neovascular proliferation in the cheek-pouch membrane. Malignant human neoplasms (eg, melanoma, basal cell epithelioma, squamous cell carcinoma, lymphoma) produced striking neovascularization; vascular tumors (eg, Kaposi sarcoma, pyogenic granuloma, vascular histiocytoma) stimulated dramatic hyperemia and ectasia. Angiogenesis was conspicuously absent after implantation of control materials and nevoid or normal cutaneous components (with the exception of epidermis). Tumor angiogenic factor appears to induce direct stimulation of endothelial cell mitosis and may be essential for survival of nutritionally ravenous neoplastic tissues. The interference with TAF has therapeutic implications.
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PMID:Tumor angiogenic factor and human skin tumors. 109 Dec 13


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