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1 Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN
Source
The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol 26, No 4 (1989), Pagination: 95-101
Abstract
Cancer is increasingly recognised as an important public health problem worldwide. Of the 5.9 million cases each year globally, three million come from developing countries. Circumstantial evidence in man suggests that immunity is important in host resistance aganist antigenic malignant disease and that any breakdown of the normal mechanism facilitates the development of malignant tumors.