interpretation of the data however is complicated by the presence of treated and post-mastectomy patients in the groups studied.in this study , lymphocytes from preoperative blood samples of untreated women with benign and malignant breast disease were tested at various effector-to-target ratios for cytotoxicity activity against the nk sensitive erythromyeloid cell line , k562.a significant reduction in nk activity was observed between carcinoma patients and the control group ( p=0.02 ) .
C0024881
mastectomy
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breast