title: [A clinical research on immuno-function of erythrocytes in the patients with pulmonary carcinoma].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To study the immuno-function of erythrocytes and the influence of surgical treatment on it in the patients with lung cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 61 patients with lung cancer were studied, consisting of 35 non-operative patients and 26 post-operative patients. Their immuno-function of erythrocytes was analyzed and compared with 30 normal controls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the post-operative group, the values of RBC C3BRRT and NTER were significantly higher than those of non-operative group (P < 0.01), but still lower than those of normal control group (P < 0.05); RFER, DTER, ETER and ATER higher than those of non-operative group (P < 0.01), and not significantly different from normal control group (P > 0.05); RBC ICR lower than that of non-operative group (P < 0.01), and not remarkably different from normal control group (P > 0.05); and RFIR lower than that of non-operative group (P < 0.01), however, still higher than that of normal control group (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The immuno-function of erythrocytes may be related to body tumor load of the patients with lung cancer, and it may gradually recover after the primary tumor is resected.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P.R.China.
authors.forename: Yuqiong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Dezhi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Yanping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaohe
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wengeng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhiping
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authors.lastname: Li