Guest guest Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Reading the below article, I think " the identification and characterization of similar cases " is NEEDED! It would be great to mimic such a powerful immune response karla Anticancer Res. 2009 Feb;29(2):465-8. Links Spontaneous regression of colorectal cancer metastatic to retroperitoneal lymph nodes. Bir AS, Fora AA, Levea C, Fakih MG. Departments of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA. Spontaneous remissions have been reported in solid tumors such as melanoma and renal cell cancer. However, spontaneous remissions in colon cancer have not been previously radiographically confirmed. A case of colon cancer metastatic to the retroperitoneal lymph nodes that exhibited a durable spontaneous regression is reported. The exact trigger of this phenomenon has not been elucidated; however, an antitumor immune response is the most likely explanation. The identification and characterization of similar cases would probably result in defining a patient population that can be followed by observation and may result in the development of novel therapeutic strategies. PMID: 19331187 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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