Article
Cellular immunosuppression in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: effect of consolidation chemotherapy.
Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII - 1 Jan 1992
Komada Y, Zhang S L, Zhou Y W, Hanada M, Shibata T, Azuma E, Sakurai M
Abstract excerpt
The present study was designed to evaluate the chemotherapy-induced cellular immunosuppression in 20 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in remission and receiving maintenance chemotherapy. Peripheral blood was serially obtained from leukemic children during vincristine/cyclophospham...
Topics
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cyclophosphamide
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Humans
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunity, Cellular
- Interleukin-2
- Killer Cells, Lymphokine-Activated
