BCG and Cancer

Robert C. Bast; Berton Zbar; Tibor Borsos; Herbert J. Rapp

doi:10.1056/NEJM197406272902605

BCG and Cancer

Robert C. Bast, Berton Zbar, Tibor Borsos, Herbert J. Rapp

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Clinical Studies Prevention of Acute Leukemia by Neonatal Vaccination with BCG Reports that BCG inhibits the development of experimental neoplasms, including spontaneous murine leukemia, have prompted several groups to consider the possibility of lowering the incidence of leukemia in a human population by means of BCG vaccination. By comparing records of leukemia deaths with records of children receiving BCG vaccination at less than 15 years of age in the Province of Quebec, Davignon et al.131 132 133 found that death from leukemia was approximately half as common among children who had been vaccinated against BCG as among those who had not. The.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1458-1469
Number of pages	12
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	290
Issue number	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM197406272902605
State	Published - Jun 27 1974
Externally published	Yes

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