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...clinical trials examined by the researchers, vaccine recipients had a 50 percent lower risk of TB than non- recipients. In the same trials, the BCG vaccinehad protected patients from death by TB 71 percentof the time...
...yesterday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers reported that the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine significantly reduces the risk of tuberculosis by an average of 50 percent...
...quarters of the women had estrogen-linked tumors. These patients, as well as the others whose cancers were not connected with the hormone, were divided into three treatment groups: one was given a combination of drugs known as CMF; another CMF and tamoxifen; and the third CMF, tamoxifen and BCG (which is designed to bolster the immune system...
...Doctors have been experimenting with immunotherapy-stimulating the immune system to recognize and combat cancer-for several years. Dr. Carl M. Pinsky of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York injected BCG, a live-bacteria anti-tuberculosis vaccine, directly into the lesions of 39 patients with malignant melanoma, a rare form of fast-spreading cancer that starts on the skin. In eight of the patients, there was noticeable regression of at least some of the treated lesions; twelve others had regression in all of the sores injected with the vaccine. Two others fared even better. They have experienced complete...
...Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo has used BCG to stimulate an immune reaction against malignant melanoma, mycosis fungoides and other cancers that originate on the skin, as well as against such deep-seated tumors as breast cancer. He has also experimented with vaccines made from tumors similar to those of the patient, injecting the substance into cancer victims in the hope of triggering not a general immune reaction but one that is specifically directed against the cancer. Of those patients who responded immunologically, most showed marked improvement...