Local eosinophilia in stroma of tumors related to prognosis

The stromal reactions of oral, gastric, breast, and cervical carcinomas were uniformly examined for the presence of eosinophilic granulocytes. Their numbers were expressed in terms of a three-grade scale. While in the carcinomas of the uterine cervix a positive correlation between the quantity of the reaction and survival rate was found, in the other groups of patients eosinophilic granulocytes occurred only as a small admixture in a limited number of cases.