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Serum Levels of Metal Ions in Female Patients with Breast Cancer
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp BC25-BC27 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- JCDR Research and Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- Background: Breast cancer is the second commonest form of cancer among women. Several studies have been conducted to identify potential risk factors. However, role of trace elements or metals in causing breast cancer has not been studied to great extent. Aims: To estimate the serum levels of calcium, copper, magnesium, iron, phosphorus and zinc and determine their role in causing breast cancer in female patients. Settings and Design: A case-control study on female patients with breast cancer was conducted in a private superspecialty hospital and Cancer centre situated in Southern part of India. Materials and Methods: Newly diagnosed female patients with breast cancer in the age group of 30-60 y attending Oncology clinic were included in the study. These cases were selected irrespective of type and stage of the disease. The age matched control subjects were drawn from apparently healthy women attending master health check at superspecialty hospital. The patients or controls suffering from co-morbid conditions which affect serum levels of metal ions and other malignancies, and those undergoing treatment for breast cancer were excluded from the study. Serum was separated and tests were performed according to standard procedure for each metal ion on the same day. The estimation of metal ions was done by UV-Visible Spectrophotometer-CHEM 7. Statistical Analysis: Independent Samples T-test was used to calculate difference between the two means. The p-value of
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Oncology clinic
Clinical Biochemistry
lcsh:Medicine
chemistry.chemical_element
Disease
magnesium
Calcium
Gastroenterology
Health check
breast cancer
iron
Breast cancer
Internal medicine
Female patient
medicine
Biochemistry Section
Stage (cooking)
skin and connective tissue diseases
calcium
business.industry
zinc
lcsh:R
Cancer
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Surgery
chemistry
copper
phosphorous
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2249782X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3ef4780f749c1f16b5652ec6018358af