The disturbances of the zinc concentration in the blood in selected neoplasms.
A study was carried out on 92 patients (58 males and 34 females) aged 42-76 treated for malignant neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract (54 patients with colorectal carcinoma, 38 with gastric carcinoma). In all patients, the zinc serum concentration was measured and the results obtained were referred to some epidemiological-clinical factors (sex, age, primary cause of cancer, the stage of clinical progression, and histological type). The results showed that the most pronounced hypozincemia occurred in male patients with mucous membrane carcinoma of the stomach.
Schlegel-Zawadzka
Malgorzata
M
Department of Human Nutrition, Institute of Public Health, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Kopański
Zbigniew
Z
Piekoszewski
Wojciech
W
Tabak
Janusz
J
Puto
Tomasz
T
Engel
Barbara
B
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000473:pathology; D015032:Zinc / Q000097:blood*
D015032:Zinc