PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rohan, Pavel
AU  - Komenda, Stanislav
TI  - Contribution to the coincidence of malignant tumours and some allergic manifestations.
DP  - 2002 Dec 1
TA  - Biomedical papers
PG  - 95--98
VI  - 146
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/bp.2002.020
IS  - 12138118
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.