Abstract
To the Editor: We congratulate Mach et al. for their report in the July 3 issue on the unequivocal scintigraphic identification of tumor sites in 11 of 27 patients given [131I]-labeled antibody to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) — a method that has been described as the radioimmunodetection of cancer.1 This report corrects the authors' previous claim that cancer radioimmunodetection in human beings with radioactive CEA antibodies is not feasible, 2 and we ascribe the earlier failure to their not using the computer-assisted background-subtraction method described in our original clinical study of CEA tumor radioimmunodetection.3 Although their paper confirms our report that.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1237-1239 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 303 |
Issue number | 21 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 20 1980 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)