Interaction of allergic disease and (immune) response to cancer in patient with stage-4 adenocarcinoma of the lung.

ABSTRACT

A 50 year old male patient who was watched because of penicillin and venom allergy in the allergy unit had been admitted to the medical oncology polyclinic with cough, expectoration and hemoptysis 10 years ago. His symptoms had first begun 1 month prior to that admission, and he was then diagnosed with stage IV adeno carcinoma. The first allergic reaction occurred at 1 hour following the last transfusion, while the second transfusion reaction occurred within the first 10 minutes of the transfusion and was associated with respiratory arrest. Also, he reported both penicillin and venom allergy history, and, subsequent to diagnosis and treatment, developed an anaphylactic reaction to a European Cornet sting on two occasions. Our aim in publishing this case is that after diagnosis of metastatic lung adeno cancer, our patient developed anaphylactic reactions associated with bee stings and on 2 occasions suffered transfusion associated anaphylactic reactions. His subsequent survival (9 years to date with stable disease) is extraordinary.