[Correlation of the frequency of surgical procedures on the peripheral immunologic organs with the frequency of oncologic and other somatic diseases].

Regional Oncological Dispensary, Kostroma The study included 388 cancer patients (group 1) and 381 cases of other pathologies (group 2). Surgery on lymphoid organs was performed in 121 patients (31%) in group 1 and 150 in group 2. It was concluded that such intervention in the immune system was not an oncological hazard. That phenomenon might be accounted for by the specificity of immune response in patients suffering from such diseases.