title: Postoperative nonspecific immunotherapy in primary bronchogenic carcinoma.
abstract: A postoperative active nonspecific immunotherapy has been conducted in 54 patients operated on for primary bronchogenic carcinoma. The immunopotentiator used is an original product prepared from a transformed strain of a saprophytic mycobacterium: M. smegmatis ATCC 607. The patients treated show an increase in postoperative survival rates of 60% at 1 year and 50% at 2 years, with regard to the survival rates of a control group and 21 surgical series available totaling over 20,000 patients. This important increase in the survival rates is accompanied by an appreciable improvement in patient comfort.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000628:therapy; D001428:Bacterial Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000628:therapy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000628:therapy; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D001428:Bacterial Vaccines