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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