Effects of blood transfusion on the immune responsiveness and survival of cancer patients: a prospective study

TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours

1987 • 16,209 citations

Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences.

1957 • 1,458 citations

Relation between recurrence of cancer of the colon and blood transfusion.

1985 • 247 citations

Adverse relationship between blood transfusions and survival after colectomy for colon cancer

1985 • 238 citations

Mechanisms of transfusion‐induced immunosuppression

1990 • 212 citations

Blood transfusions and survival after lung cancer resection

1985 • 180 citations

Perioperative blood transfusions are associated with increased rates of recurrence and decreased survival in patients with high-grade soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities.

1985 • 178 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion adversely affects prognosis after resection of Stage I (subset NO) non-oat cell lung cancer

1984 • 170 citations

Association between transfusion of whole blood and recurrence of cancer.

1986 • 164 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion has prognostic significance for breast cancer.

1985 • 162 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion does not increase the risk of colorectal cancer recurrence

1987 • 123 citations

Adverse affect of blood transfusions on survival of patients with gastric cancer

1987 • 109 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion in patients with colon carcinoma

1985 • 97 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion and prognosis of resected stage Ia lung cancer

1986 • 72 citations

The relationship of blood transfusion, tumor staging, and cancer recurrence

1990 • 72 citations

Blood transfusion and disease‐free survival in carcinoma of the breast

1984 • 70 citations

The effect of a single whole-blood transfusion on cytokine secretion

1990 • 58 citations

Blood Transfusion and Survival Following Nephrectomy for Carcinoma of Kidney

1987 • 50 citations

Renal cell carcinoma: blood transfusion and survival.

1986 • 47 citations

Relation between cancer of the colon and blood transfusion

1985 • 39 citations

PROSTAGLANDIN PRODUCTION AND SUPPRESSOR CELL INDUCTION IN TRANSFUSION-INDUCED IMMUNE SUPPRESSION

1987 • 37 citations

Effect of blood transfusions on macrophage function in a burned animal model.

1986 • 36 citations

Anti-tumour immunity by normal allogeneic blood transfusion in rat.

1977 • 28 citations

Acceleration of B16 melanoma growth in mice after blood transfusion.

1987 • 28 citations

Enhanced growth of artificial tumor metastases following blood transfusion: The effect of erythrocytes, leukocytes and plasma transfusion

1987 • 26 citations

Recurrent carcinoma of the vulva: relationship with operative blood transfusion

1986 • 21 citations

Suppressor cell induction in donor-specific transfused mouse heart recipients.

1984 • 21 citations

Blood transfusion exposure does not influence survival in patients with carcinoma of the breast

1989 • 19 citations

Increase of donor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors after transfusion.

1989 • 17 citations

AN INCREASE OF DONOR-SPECIFIC T HELPER PRECURSORS RESULTING FROM BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS

1990 • 15 citations

BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND TUMOUR GROWTH: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

1985 • 11 citations

Effect of Allogeneic Blood Transfusions on the Growth of Two Different Tumours in the Rat

1985 • 9 citations

Immunoenzymatic determination of immunoglobulins secreted by human peripheral blood lymphocytes in pokeweed mitogen and lipo-polysaccharide stimulated cultures.

1984 • 2 citations