Analysis of trace elements in the hair of volunteers suffering from naso-pharyngeal cancer：（志愿者的头发中微量元素分析遭受naso-pharyngeal癌症）.pdfVIP

OCopyright 1997by Humana Press Inc. All rights of any nature, whatsoever, reserved. 0163-4984/97/5701--0019 $9.75 Analysis of Trace Elements in the Hair of Volunteers Suffering from Naso-Pharyngeal Cancer P o LAU LEUNG *1 AND HAN MING HUANG 2 1Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong; and 2Pattern Recognition Research Section, Institute of Geophysics, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing, R R. China Received June 21, 1995; Revised March 22, 1996; Accepted May 31, 1996 ABSTRACT This article describes a study where the trace elements (TEs) of four groups of volunteers were analyzed. The volunteers were divided into four groups A, B, C, and D. Group A was made up of healthy subjects, group B was made up of volunteers who had just been diagnosed as having naso-pharyngeal cancer (NPC), group C was made up of volunteers who had been diagnosed as having NPC after 3 mo of treatment, and group D was made up of volunteers who had been diagnosed as having NPC after 6 mo of treatment. In all groups, 11 trace elements in hair were analyzed. Our study shows that the concentrations of zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), and cobalt (Co) in group B are less than that of group A, whereas the concentration of titanium (Ti) in group B is higher. Our results also show that the difference in the level of TEs between group A and the other groups is dramatically decreased as the