Does prior radiation and/or chemotherapy have no effect on the outcome of metal stent placement for oesophagogastric carcinoma?
Both the incidence of life-threatening complications and survival after placement of self-expanding metal stents for oesophagogastric carcinoma are not affected by prior RTCT, but retrosternal pain occurs more frequently in patients who had previously undergone RTCT.
IFN-gamma have the immunoregulatory function of making monocytes differentiate to untypical mature dendritic cells (DC).