Serum ferritin and malignant tumours.
Increased concentrations of serum ferritin are common in patients with malignant disease and appear to be a non-specific response. The present evidence does not suggest that serum ferritin assay is useful either for specific diagnosis or monitoring of malignant disease. A special role for acidic isoferritins in malignancy remains to be substantiated.
D000818:Animals; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000097:blood; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005293:Ferritins / Q000097:blood* / Q000502:physiology; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000097:blood; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000097:blood; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000097:blood*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D051381:Rats; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000032:analysis
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins; D005293:Ferritins