title: The clinical value of the determinations in the serum of zinc concentration in women with breast cancer.
abstract: The clinical usefulness of the determinations of the zinc serum concentration at different stages of the breast cancer diagnostic process was evaluated in the present work. On the basis of the analysis of 182 women surgically treated because of this neoplasm, a statistically significant dependence was shown between the frequency of occurrence of hypozincemia and the progression of the cancer, its histological form, and the microscopic state of the axillary lymph nodes. The clinical usefulness was also shown by the determinations of the zincemia in the post-operative monitoring of patients with breast cancer. The critical value was also determined for the microelement concentration below which a statistically significantly high risk of occurrence of distant metastases appears.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Military Hospital, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kopański
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Piekoszewski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Habiniak
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wojewoda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wojewoda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schlegel-Zawadzka
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sibiga
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic; D015032:Zinc / Q000032:analysis / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D015032:Zinc