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A high incidence of malignancy involving the lymphoid apparatus or other tissues has been reported in congenital agammaglobulinemia [83, 120, 134]. In most cases of acquired agammaglobulinemia and malignancy, the immunologic deficiency is secondary to the malignancy. However, in a few cases [53, 69, 78] the immunologic deficit clearly preceded the development of malignancy by a number of years and therefore appears to be of etiologic importance.
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Penn, I. (1970). Malignancy and Immunologic Deficiency States in Man. 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_3
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