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W. Fekl reported on recent investigations performed by the group of St.J. Dudrick concerning the influence of hyperalimentation on the immune status of cancer patients (1–4). As it is known that cancer, as well as, therapeutic procedures render the organism into a catabolic state and finally into cachexia, it was studied whether the success of cancer therapy could be enhanced by treating the catabolic state with intravenous hyperalimentation (IVH).
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Fekl, W. (1979). Discussion. In: Flad, HD., Herfarth, C., Betzler, M. (eds) Immunodiagnosis and Immunotherapy of Malignant Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67166-1_39
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