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Genetic and enzymatic evidence for Lewis enzyme expression in Lewis-negative cancer patients.
Cancer research - 1 Apr 1995
Yazawa S, Nishihara S, Iwasaki H, Asao T, Nagamachi Y, Matta K L, Narimatsu H
Abstract excerpt
It has been observed that the frequency of individuals with Lewis-negative erythrocytes is significantly higher in cancer patients than in healthy controls. In this study, 20 of the 66 (30.3%) patients with various cancers were typed as Lewis negative from their erythrocytes, while the same frequency in healthy controls was 11.1%. These 20 patients were divided into three groups based on the presence of Lewis...
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