CONSIDERATION ON DIMINISHED IMMUNOLOGICAL DEFENSES IN THE ELDERLY NEOPLASTIC SUBJECT

We evaluated some useful parameters which identify immune-depressive s tates in the elderly neoplastic patient, who is subject to possible as sociated infective diseases. Out of 27 patients followed-up over four months of chemotherapy in concomitance with an immunomodulator, it was seen that in 42.3% there was an increase in their immune defences, as sessed by an increase in total lymphocytes with a lymphocyte ratio of T4/T8 and NK cells, and by checking the urinoculture for urinary infec tions which showed an improved performance status.