[Immunologic studies using the leukocyte adherence inhibition test in the diagnosis and postoperative follow-up of breast cancer].

37 women with histologically proved carcinoma of the breast as well as 3 control groups (benign breast diseases, other carcinomas, benign surgical diseases) were investigated by means of the leucocyte adherence inhibition test. In the primary diagnostics of the carcinoma of the breast the specificity was 56%, the sensitivity 70%. Follow-up studies on the conditions of a district hospital over a period of 2 years showed a different reactivity which is suitable for the evaluation of recurrence and immunological tumour-host relations.