Acute phase reactant proteins in the clinical management of carcinoma of the bladder.
The levels of a number of acute phase reactant proteins have been measured in 250 patients with carcinoma of the bladder in all stages. Three of them, acid glycoprotein, antichymotrypsin, and C-reactive protein, frequently gave abnormal results in advanced disease. The levels of these 3 proteins in patients who were clinically tumour-free were not distinguishable from those from an age-matched control group. The levels in patients with T1 and T2 bladder tumours were sometimes elevated. In advanced disease, figures were commonly above the normal range.
D000328:Adult; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000097:blood; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000097:blood; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology
D006023:Glycoproteins; D002097:C-Reactive Protein; D002918:Chymotrypsin