title: [Investigations on the immune status of operated and irradiated cases of cervical and breast cancer I. immune status before and after surgery of cancer of the cervix, stages I b and II a(author's transl)].
abstract: 12 patients were investigated in regard to their state of humoral immunity by means of the following determinations: IgG, IgM, and IgA concentrations in the serum, hetero- and isoagglutinins, tetanus antitoxin before and after immunization with toxoid measles antibodies and the percentage of lymphocytes with membrane fluorescence. The cellular immunity was investigated in some patients with determination of the percentage of spontaneously-rosetting lymphocytes, of the DNCB skin-test reactivity before and after sensitization with DNCB and of skin-test reactivity to candida, trichophyton, varidase, OT and staphylo antigen. The functional efficiency of polymorphonuclear leucocytes was investigated by means of the NBT test and Staph. aureus, E. coli and Latex particles. All investigations were performed before, and 3, 6, 9 and 12 weeks after surgery. 4 methods only amongst the entire spectrum employed in the investigation proved to give sufficient evidence of signs of decreased efficiency of the immune response in the investigated patients: determination of tetanus antitoxin before and after immunization, a distinct increase in titre being observed only in 5 cases, determination of the sensitization to DNCB, which was positive only in 4 cases and determination of skin-test reactivity to varidase and OT, which was found to be less frequently positive than in controls. However, all these reactions showed no evidence of any correlation to surgical management and appeared merely to reflect characteristic responses of these cancer patients. Moreover, with the exception of the decrease in lymphocytes, no changes were detected in the data obtained by the other methods used in this study which might show some reflection of an alteration in response following surgery.
mesh_terms: D000912:Antibodies, Neoplasm; D000917:Antibody Formation; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology; D002462:Cell Membrane; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000032:analysis; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis; D007518:Isoantibodies / Q000032:analysis; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D010587:Phagocytosis; D013743:Tetanus Antitoxin / Q000032:analysis; D013745:Tetanus Toxoid
chemical_list: D000912:Antibodies, Neoplasm; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M; D007518:Isoantibodies; D013743:Tetanus Antitoxin; D013745:Tetanus Toxoid
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen ürber den Immunstatus von operierten und von bestrahlten Patientinnen mit Kollum- und Mammakarzinom I. Immunstatus vor und nach Operation von Kollumkarzinomen der Stadien I b und II a