title: [Chemoimmunotherapy of malignancies of the gastrointestinal tract].
abstract: Stimulation of the immune response could be obtained in outpatients with inoperable locally advanced or metastasizing gastrointestinal tumors (n = 56), who were palliatively treated with cyclophosphamide (cy), 350 mg/m2 i.v., thymostimulin, echinacin i.m. and in part additionally with epirubicin, 15 mg/m2 i.v. At present, outpatients with pancreatic (n = 7) or colon carcinomas (n = 1) receive interleukin 2 (IL-2) intralesionally, 2 x 10(5) Cetus units (CU), days 3, 5 and 7 after cy, and by portable continuous infusion systems i.v., 3 x 10(5) CU/day, days 3-8 after cy. Subsets of lymphocytes slightly decreased in the patients' peripheral blood, recall antigen reactivity slightly increased. Patients' mean survival time was 5.7 +/- 1.7 months.
authors.affiliation: II. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Technischen Universität München.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lersch
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gain
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Classen
mesh_terms: D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016131:Lymphocyte Subsets; D010166:Palliative Care
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2; D003520:Cyclophosphamide