[Changes in the indices of a general blood analysis depending on the histological form of cancer]

Retrospective analysis has been carried out of case records of 122 patients operated on in the urological department for renal cancer. It is only in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), keratinizing type of epidermoid carcinoma, and spindle cell variant of SCC that the diminution in red blood count, decrease in hemoglobin and increase in ESR was noted to occur in all the patients; to a lesser extent the above changes showed up in adenocarcinoma, mixed type, clear cell, granular cell variants of SCC and in transitional cell carcinoma. Increase in white blood count was noted in 80% of the patients in spindle cell variant of SCC only; whereas in other forms this was recorded in 11-33%. The results obtained will, we believe, help in broadening, to an extent, our diagnostic and prognostic potentialities in malignant neoplasia of the kidney.