RESUMEN

Seven incurable patients with disseminated malignant melanoma were injected (subcutaneously, sometimes intravenously) with homogenate of bovine pineal tissue. The daily injections of large quantities of pineal tissue appeared to be harmless for patients. Many-fold injections (during 9.5 months) of large quantities of pineal tissue (up to 3950 g) in 1 of 7 cases produced certain effect on subcutaneous metastases of malignant melanoma, i.e. causing reduction and even disappearance.

Asunto(s)

Melanoma/terapia , Glándula Pineal , Neoplasias Cutáneas/terapia , Extractos de Tejidos/uso terapéutico , Adulto , Animales , Bovinos , Estudios de Evaluación como Asunto , Humanos , Masculino , Metástasis de la Neoplasia , Glándula Pineal/metabolismo