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Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant

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    • Humberto H. Lara
    • Liliana Ixtepan-Turrent
    • Elsa N. Garza-Treviño
    • Reyes Tamez-Guerra
    • Cristina Rodriguez-Padilla
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    Affiliations: Laboratorio de Inmunología y Virología, Departamento de Microbiología e Inmunología, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. dr.lara.v@gmail.com
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Dialyzable leukocyte extract (DLE) is one of the immunological agents used as an adjuvant in cancer therapy; it has been associated with improved quality of life during cancer chemotherapy. Based on these previous findings and on the observed clinical benefits attributed to DLE in other types of cancer, we investigated its clinical and immunological effects as a therapy adjuvant on breast cancer patients who received only chemotherapy, as compared to patients administered bovine DLE (bDLE) as an adjuvant. This study included 43 breast cancer patients who were about to begin chemotherapy. This group was divided as follows: 25 received chemotherapy and bDLE as an adjuvant therapy, and 18 received only chemotherapy without the adjuvant. All patient clinical and immunological responses were monitored. Among patients in the group that received bDLE as adjuvant, 60% showed a complete response, 32% showed a partial response and 8% did not respond. By contrast, in the group without the adjuvant, 39% showed a complete response, 50% displayed a partial response and 11% were non-responders. In addition, bDLE treatment in combination with chemotherapy resulted in the enhancement of the Karnofsky performance scale during chemotherapy. Even though patients underwent several cycles of chemotherapy without bDLE, the lymphocyte population dropped to below the reference value. On the other hand, in patients with bDLE as adjuvant, the CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes and the B lymphocytes were maintained within the median range of the reference value. The number of natural killer cells also increased after chemotherapy treatment with bDLE as an adjuvant. In conclusion, bDLE treatment contributes to significant immunological recovery in patients that have undergone heavy chemotherapy, increasing the clinical response and quality of life during chemotherapy.
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Lara HH, Ixtepan-Turrent L, Garza-Treviño EN, Tamez-Guerra R and Rodriguez-Padilla C: Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant . Exp Ther Med 1: 425-431, 2010.
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Lara, H.H., Ixtepan-Turrent, L., Garza-Treviño, E.N., Tamez-Guerra, R., & Rodriguez-Padilla, C. (2010). Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant . Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 1, 425-431. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm_00000066
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Lara, H. H., Ixtepan-Turrent, L., Garza-Treviño, E. N., Tamez-Guerra, R., Rodriguez-Padilla, C."Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant ". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 1.3 (2010): 425-431.
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Lara, H. H., Ixtepan-Turrent, L., Garza-Treviño, E. N., Tamez-Guerra, R., Rodriguez-Padilla, C."Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant ". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 1, no. 3 (2010): 425-431. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm_00000066
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Lara, H.H., Ixtepan-Turrent, L., Garza-Treviño, E.N., Tamez-Guerra, R., & Rodriguez-Padilla, C. (2010). Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant . Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 1, 425-431. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm_00000066
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Lara, H. H., Ixtepan-Turrent, L., Garza-Treviño, E. N., Tamez-Guerra, R., Rodriguez-Padilla, C."Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant ". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 1.3 (2010): 425-431.
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Lara, H. H., Ixtepan-Turrent, L., Garza-Treviño, E. N., Tamez-Guerra, R., Rodriguez-Padilla, C."Clinical and immunological assessment in breast cancer patients receiving anticancer therapy and bovine dialyzable leukocyte extract as an adjuvant ". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 1, no. 3 (2010): 425-431. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm_00000066
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