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Lymphocyte response to PHA was depressed in 9 of 14 cases of Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and in 4 of 14 cases of lung carcinoma (LC). This depression was caused in one-third of the HD cases and in one-half of the LC cases by an excess of prostaglandin synthesis.
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Huchet, R., Thomas, Y., Grandjon, D. (1980). Suppressor Cells in Hodgkin’s Disease and Lung Carcinoma. In: Mathé, G., Muggia, F.M. (eds) Cancer Chemo- and Immunopharmacology. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81491-4_6
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