Lymphocyte labile iron pool, plasma iron, transferrin saturation and ferritin levels in colon cancer patients.

Daniel Gackowski; Marcin Kruszewsk; Zbigniew Banaszkiewicz; Arkadiusz Jawien; Ryszard Olinski

doi:10.18388/abp.2002_3845

Lymphocyte labile iron pool, plasma iron, transferrin saturation and ferritin levels in colon cancer patients.

Daniel Gackowski Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Ludwik Rydygier Medical University in Bydgoszcz, Poland.;
Marcin Kruszewsk
Zbigniew Banaszkiewicz
Arkadiusz Jawien
Ryszard Olinski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18388/abp.2002_3845

Abstract

Patients with colorectal carcinoma showed statistically significant lower values of transferrin saturation, total iron binding capacity and serum iron level as compared with control group, while the level of ferritin and the size of labile iron pool in carcinoma patients were higher, although this difference was not statistically significant. Our observations are in favour of the hypothesis which suggests that changes in iron metabolism restrict iron availability for tumour cells and as consequence, slow their growth.

Published

2002-03-31

Issue

Vol. 49 No. 1 (2002)

Section

Articles

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