Affiliations: [a] Fujian Provincial Tumor Hospital, P.R.China | [b] Fujian Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, P.R.China
Note: [] Accepted by: Editor L. Dintenfass
Abstract: This study was carried out on 329 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma 120, thyroid cancer 27, esophagus carcinoma 10, primary hepatic cancer 67, stomach cancer 36, carcinoma of co.rdia 27, breast cancer 10 and lymphoma 32. The hemorheological tests were performed including whole blood viscosity, plasma viscosity, whole blood reduced v scosity, hematocrit, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and its equational coefficient K, erythroelectrophoresis, fibrinogen, triglyceride and cholesterol. It was shown that there was a significant elevation of fibrinogen in all types of cancer (except thyroid cancer) and significant elevation of red cell aggregation and increased plasma viscosity and whole blood reduced viscosity in all type of cancer. These tests should be of diagnostic and prognostic value. Hemorheological changes in hepatic diseases (hepatitis, hepatocirrhosis and primary hepatic cancer) and gastric diseases (chronic superfical gastritis, chronic atrophic gastritis, ulcer and stomach. cancer) were observed respectively. Those tests, especially level of fibrinogen and K would be recognized as an adjuvant factor for evaluation the process and end-result of those diseases and to distinguish benignancy from malignancy.
Keywords: Haemorheology, Cancer, Thyroid CA, Esophagus CA, Primary Hepatic CA, Stomach CA, CA of Cardia, Breast CA, Lymphoma, NP CA
