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Non-viable microbial agents were used to treat lymph node metastases of the line-10 hepatocarcinoma in strain two guinea pigs. Oil droplet vaccines were administered by intradermal injection adjacent to the site of dermal tumors. The primary tumors were removed surgically before or after immunotherapy. Control animals, treated with surgery alone, died of metastatic tumor growth. The mycobacterial glycolipid, P3, plus polysaccharide deficient endotoxin (Re Et) eliminated lymph node metastases when the primary tumors were excised 7 days or 1 day after immunotherapy. The combination of P3, BCG cell wall skeleton and Re Et was also effective when there was an interval of 1 or 7 days between immunotherapy and surgery. In addition, this combination retarded, and in some experiments, eliminated metastatic tumor growth in animals given immunotherapy immediately prior to surgery and in animals given immunotherapy 2 days after surgery.
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Kelly, M.T., McLaughlin, C.A. & Ribi, E.E. Eradication of microscopic lymph node metastases of the guinea pig line-10 tumor after intradermal injection of endotoxin plus mycobacterial components. Cancer Immunol Immunother 4, 29–32 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00205567
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