Autoimmune Disease
Patients testing positive for anti-Hu antibodies may have underlying cancer
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, June 30th, 2003
According to published research from France, "Sera from 71 patients with primary Sjogren syndrome (PSS) and from 102 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were tested by immuno-dot blotting against HuD, Ri, Yo and amphiphysin recombinant proteins.
"For Ri, Yo and amphiphysin antigens, no immunoreactivity was found in the 173 sera tested. One PSS patient with a clinical picture of subacute sensory neuronopathy had high titers of anti-Hu antibodies. An extensive search for an underlying tumor was initially negative, but a small...
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