title: Aflatoxins in sera from patients with lung cancer.
abstract: Sera from patients with lung cancer and from healthy donors were screened for the presence of aflatoxins. Significant differences in levels of aflatoxins between the two groups were found. Only 1 of the neoplastic patients with aflatoxins in the serum was a smoker. However the percentage of sera from lung cancer containing aflatoxins is not significant enough to provide evidence for a casual relationship between aflatoxins exposure and development of lung cancer in humans.
authors.affiliation: Microbiology Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Messina, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cusumano
mesh_terms: D000348:Aflatoxins / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking
chemical_list: D000348:Aflatoxins