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The mechanism of neoplastic fever production involves cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor (TNF), interleukins 1 and 6 (IL-I, IL-6) and interferon (IFN), produced either by host macrophages in response to tumour, or sometimes by the tumour itself. The cytokines stimulate production of prostaglandins which act on the hypothalamus causing a change in the thermostatic set point. This mechanism is similar to that of infective fever.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Paracetamol (acetaminophen) will often only partially lyse neoplastic fever but nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been shown to be effective. On the basis of small studies, naproxen has been proposed as a useful test to discriminate between neoplastic and infective fever. If this is so, it must be acting through a pathway hitherto undescribed and specific to neoplastic fever. Other work shows that this group of drugs effectively lyses both types of fever. 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