Calmette-Guerin bacillus treatment of experimental conjunctival malignant melanoma
J. Rutgard, G. A. Peyman, M. Frenkel and S. Saks
Malignant melanoma of the conjunctival region was induced in the golden
Syrian hamster. Inoculation of this lesion with Calmette-Guerin bacillus
(BCG), 48 hours after injection of 10(3) tumor cells, either slowed,
limited, or completely prevented the growth of the tumor in 56% of the
treated eyes. In 98% of the control eyes, malignant melanoma grew rapidly
and extensively.