PT Journal
AU Rohan, P
   Komenda, S
TI Contribution to the coincidence of malignant tumours and some allergic manifestations.
SO Biomedical papers
PY 2002
BP 95
EP 98
VL 146
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bp.2002.020
DE Retrospective study / Malignancy / Allergy or allergy-like manifestation / Frequency of occurrence /
AB 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.
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