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A wide variety of experimental procedures which result in alteration of immunologic status have been shown to cause an increased incidence of neoplasms. Evidence has accumulated showing that in virus induced leukemias in mice there is a period of immunologic deficiency during the incubation period before the onset of frank leukemia [26, 36, 125, 146].
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Penn, I. (1970). Malignancy and Immunologic Deficiency States in Experimental Animals. In: Malignant Tumors in Organ Transplant Recipients. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46255-9_2
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