Thomas L
Yale J Biol Med. 1982 May-Aug;55(3-4):329-33.
The extraordinarily high incidence of cancers of many different varieties--carcinomas and lymphomas--in organ-transplant patients being maintained for long periods of time with immunosuppressive drugs is briefly reviewed. The role of immunosurveillance as a primary defense mechanism against cancer in human beings is consistent with these observations and is in need of further investigation. Conceivably, this mechanism may play a somewhat different role in humans from what has been observed in most experimental animal models.
简要回顾了长期使用免疫抑制药物维持治疗的器官移植患者中多种不同类型癌症(癌和淋巴瘤)的极高发病率。免疫监视作为人类抵御癌症的主要防御机制,这一作用与这些观察结果相符,且有待进一步研究。可以想象,该机制在人类中可能发挥的作用与大多数实验动物模型中所观察到的有所不同。