Serum ferritin concentration in early breast cancer

Ferritin-bearing T-lymphocytes and serum ferritin in patients with breast cancer

“…It also confirms other earlier reports (Marcus & Zinberg, 1975;Jacobs et al, 1976) of high circulating ferritin levels in patients with breast cancer. There are many possible causes of raised serum ferritin levels in malignancy, including increased iron stores, release of ferritin from inflamed tissues and production of ferritin by proliferating tumour cells .…”

Serum ferritin concentration in untreated Hodgkin's disease

“…2 the distribution of serum ferritin concentrations in the present group of patients is compared with that of normal women and those with early breast cancer (Jacobs et al, 1976) and active rheumatoid arthritis (Bentley and Williams, 1974). It is interesting to note that in both malignant groups many of the abnormally high levels are similar to those found in the non-malignant inflammatory condition.…”

Cerebrospinal fluid ferritin in malignant CNS involvement

“…Table 1 summarizes the results of CSF femtin, protein, and glucose measurements in patients of all four groups. Low CSF ferritin concentrations were found in patients with noninflammatory neurologic disease (Group I: mean, 9 +-1 ng/ml; range, [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] and in patients with malignancy without CNS involvement (Group 111: mean, 8 +-1; range, 1 -15 ng/ml). Increased CSF femtin levels were found in patients with malignancy and CNS involvement (Group IV: mean, 43 -t 1 1 ng/ml; range, 10-2 16) and in patients with inflammatory neurologic disease (Group 11: mean, 62 f 14 ng/ml; range, 5-235).…”

“…Group ZIZ: Patients with malignant disease without CNS involvement (24 patients) including acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) (2), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (12), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (I), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (6), carcinoma of ovary (l), and retinoblastoma (2).…”