Research Article
Heavy Metal Content in Thoracic Tissue Samples from Patients with and without NSCLC
Table 4
Heavy metal content in the MMC tissue samples from NSCLC cases.
| | 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 benign lung tissue of noncancer patients in g/g |
| | Cd | 0.0650
(0.01–0.914) | 0.118
(0.016–0.561) | 0.060
(0.011–0.825) | 0.029
(0.011–0.323) | | As | 0.0305
(0.011–0.093) | 0.031
(0.023–0.039) | 0.022
(0.014–0.099) | 0.016
(0.011–0.027) | | Hg | 0.036
(0.011–15.3) | 0.038
(0.014–0.062) | 0.052
(0.014–0.099) | 0.051
(0.026–0.065) | | Pb | 0.0235
(0.012–0.043) | 0.016
(0.01–0.028) | 0.028
(0.014–0.099) | 0.04
(0.013–0.119) |
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