Leukemic myelocytes and lymphocytes can undergo « in vitro » severe alterations when kept in contact with some strains of yeasts The changes are briefly described.
The intravenous treatment with such yeasts seems to benefit the course of the myeloid and lymphatic chronic leukemia.
The present experiments may be related with the preceding studies of the Author on specific antagonism of some yeasts to cancer cells.
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