{"term":{"id":"13535","title":"paraneoplastic autoimmune syndrome","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - paraneoplastic autoimmune syndrome","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13535","code":"13535","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Any of several autoimmune diseases that are caused by tumor-induced perturbations of the immune system with damaging effects on various organ systems (e.g. cancer-associated retinopathy, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, paraneoplastic cutaneous syndromes). In most cases, autoantibodies generated by antitumor immunity are responsible for the tissue injury.","links":[{"term":"Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS)","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/13371"},{"term":"autoantibodies","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/12913"},{"term":"autoimmune diseases","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/12919"},{"term":"immune system","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/13271"},{"term":"immunity","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/13272"}],"sources":["PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1224 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-11-06-03)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13535\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13535\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13535\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'paraneoplastic autoimmune syndrome' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13535","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-15T12:55:31+00:00"}}