Research Article
Heavy Metal Content in Thoracic Tissue Samples from Patients with and without NSCLC
Table 2
Heavy metal content in the UT tissue samples.
| Heavy metal | Median concentration (range) of metal in primary lung tumor site in g/g | Median concentration (range) of metal in distant benign lung tissue in g/g | Median concentration (range) of metal in benign adjacent lung tissue in g/g | Median concentration (range) of metal in malignant lymph node tissue in g/g | Median concentration (range) of metal in benign adjacent lymph nodes in g/g | Median concentration (range) of metal in distant benign lymph nodes in g/g |
| Cd | 0.0580 (not detectable-0.316) | 0.2040 (not detectable-2.500) | 0.0830 (not detectable-0.942) | 0.0260 (not detectable-0.096) | 0.0264 (not detectable-0.1058) | 0.0512 (not detectable-0.015) | As | 0.0305 (not detectable-0.078) | 0.0250 (not detectable-0.070) | 0.0230 (not detectable-0.266) | 0.0480 (not detectable-0.201) | 0.0265 (not detectable-0.0832) | 0.0238 (not detectable-0.015) | Hg | 0 (not detectable-0.015) | 0 (not detectable-0.012) | 0 (not detectable) | 0 (not detectable) | 0 (not detectable) | 0 (not detectable-0.015) | Pb | 0 (not detectable-0.026) | 0 (not detectable) | 0 (not detectable-0.101) | 0 (not detectable-0.057) | 0 (not detectable-0.0585) | 0 (not detectable-0.015) |
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