Search for dissertations about: "bcg SIDE EFFECTS"

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  2. 1. Carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Long-term prognosis and results of intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment

    Author : Patrik Andius; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : bladder cancer; tumour pattern; prognostic factors; BCG; side-effect;

    Abstract : Aims: To study prognostic factors in bladder cancer in relation to BCG immunotherapy and to evaluate a new method of reducing the side-effects of such treatment.Patients and methods: We identified 121 patients with stage T1 tumours diagnosed with bladder cancer between 1987 and 1988. READ MORE

  4. 2. Effects of BCG-treatment on urinary bladder cancer with focus on nitric oxide

    Author : Tomas Thiel; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is used as a single agent or adjuvant therapy in the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. In spite being one of the most efficient immunological treatments in cancer, BCG for bladder cancer is afflicted with a number of unsolved problems. READ MORE

  5. 3. Tuberculosis and HIV interaction in Ethiopian children : aspects on epidemiology, diagnosis and clinical management

    Author : Ingela Berggren Palme; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Tuberculosis; HIV; Ethiopia; Child; Epidemiology; Risk factor; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Drug resistance; Molecular epidemiology; BCG; Nutrition; Treatment; Cure rate;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the influence of HIV on childhood tuberculosis (TB) in a high TB and HIV endemic setting. It is based on four studies involving the same study population of 522 tuberculous children and their 25 3 non-tuberculous controls, consecutively enrolled as out- and inpatients at the major paediatric hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. READ MORE

  6. 4. Cancer Immunotherapy : A Preclinical Study of Urinary Bladder Cancer

    Author : Christina Ninalga; Thomas Tötterman; Magnus Essand; Timothy Ratliff; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Medicine; immunotherapy; bladder carcinoma; cancer; CpG ODNs; Adenoviral vector; CD40L; TRANCE; Lymphotactin; IL2; IL15; Medicin;

    Abstract : Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG), or attenuated Mycobacterium bovis, is the gold standard of immunotherapy in the clinic to treat superficial bladder cancer. However, setbacks remain due to a high recurrence rate, side effects, and BCG-refractory disease. READ MORE

  7. 5. Immunogenicity of anti-leishmaniasis vaccines in man

    Author : Iman Nasr Eldin Satti; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Leishmania; cellular immunity; cytokines; Leishmanin skin test.;

    Abstract : Leishmaniasis represents a serious health problem in Sudan. There is no adequate control measure available against the disease in the country. Vaccination remains the optimal potential control measure. READ MORE