oncology; cancer chemotherapy; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; cancer immunology; lymphocytes subpopulations; lymphocytes; T lymphocytes; B lymphocytes; null cells; cellular immunity; humoral immunity; suppressor cells; flow cytometry; monoclonal antibodies; chemotherapy mediated generation of cytotoxic cells; head and neck cancer
Abstract :
[en] Subpopulations of blood lymphocytes were quantified among head and neck cancer patients receiving a neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Significant changes took place : increase of T lymphocytes opposed to marked depletion of B cells and null cells. An effect against cancer is possible either by amplification of cytotoxicity as well as by decrease of suppressor function.
Disciplines :
Oncology
Author, co-author :
Deneufbourg, Jean-Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Radiothérapie
