Carcinoembryonic antigen. Clinical application
โ Scribed by Vay Liang W. Go
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 487 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels were determined in 742 postoperative patients with breast cancer. Within this group the percentage of elevated (24.0 ng/ml) assays increased with UICC clinical stage and was 14.8% (12/81), 23.7% (27/114), 73.1% (190/260) and 20.0% (49/245) for stages I, 11, 111,
Circulating CEA levels were determined in 102 patients with histologically proven pancreatic carcinoma and 26 patients with chrdnic pancreatitis. In the group with pancreatic carcinoma eleven patients had resectable tumors, the mean CEA in the nonjaundiced patients was 10 ? 5 ng/ml while the mean va