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Erythrocyte fatty acid profiles in childhood malignancy
W Heard1, J A Kohler, A D Postle
1Department of Child Health, Southampton General Hospital, England, UK.
Medical and Pediatric Oncology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The erythrocyte fatty acid composition was determined for 79 children using gas chromatography. The stearic:oleic acid ratio (SOR) was significantly lower in those children with newly diagnosed malignancies than in a reference group of healthy children. However, a control group of children with chronic, non-malignant conditions were also found to have a low SOR. These results suggest that the erythrocyte SOR cannot be used as a tumour marker in children.