Peripheral B- and T-lymphocyte counts in patients with sarcoma and breast carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Yeu-Tsu N. Lee; G. June Marshall; John Weiner; Joseph R. Bateman

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 434 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197708)40:2<667::aid-cncr2820400212>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

Peripheral B- and T-lymphocyte counts were studied in 50 patients before they received any therapy for their conditions: 16 had carcinoma of the breast; 8 soft tissue sarcoma; and 26, benign disease. Among 11 males, the six patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma had significantly lower percentages of T lymphocytes than five patients with benign conditions. And six female patients with advanced breast cancers had significantly higher numbers of B lymphocytes than the 10 patients with early breast malignancies. Pertinent reports in the literature were reviewed and discussed. Presently, the clinical and prognostic values of quantitative study of T and B lymphocytes remain to be defined.