Delayed hypersensitivity in patients with bronchial carcinoma.
Delayed hypersensitivity skin test reactions have been carried out in patients with bronchial carcinoma. Dinitrochlorobenzene, used as a parameter of newly induced cell-mediated immunity, was clearly suppressed, and this suppression was associated with a poor prognosis. Tuberculin reactivity, used as a parameter of the memory function of the cell-mediated immune system, was not altered, and bears no relation to prognosis.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000276:immunology; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000276:immunology; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000276:immunology; D004137:Dinitrochlorobenzene; D006801:Humans; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D012882:Skin Tests; D014374:Tuberculin Test
D004137:Dinitrochlorobenzene