Biomed. Papers 146(2), 95-98 (2002) | DOI: 10.5507/bp.2002.020

Contribution to the coincidence of malignant tumours and some allergic manifestations.

Pavel Rohan^a, Stanislav Komenda^b

^b Institute of Medical Biophysics, Biometrics and Informatics at the Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

^a Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Clinical observations during the past decades led us to the early empirical assumptions that adult patients affected by certain types of allergic manifestations may have a lower prevalence of malignant tumors. In order to test those observations as well as some contradictory reports, we conducted a retrospective study using 32 years of records and statistics of a medium-sized hospital (420 beds) at St. Mary's Hospital, a general, non-chronic, teaching hospital, affiliated with McGill University in Montreal. The study has been realized during two periods: (a) 1965-1989 and (b) 1990-1996.

Keywords: Retrospective study, Malignancy, Allergy or allergy-like manifestation, Frequency of occurrence,

Received: June 20, 2001; Published: December 1, 2002  Show citation