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Table 6 Ferritin, ESR, CRP, ALAT and alcoholism * in patients with gastrointestinal cancer

From: Ferritin above 100 mcg/L could rule out colon cancer, but not gastric or rectal cancer in patients with involuntary weight loss

Localisation of cancer

nr

Ferritin

Anaemia

ESR

PCR

ALAT

Alcoholism

CAECUM

1

38

NO

16

5.7

12.7

NO

COLON

1

71

YES

101

77.4

13

NO

(ascending,

2

82

YES

140

125

30

NO

transverse,

3

26

YES

57

25.6

21.7

NO

descending)

4

10

YES

60

1.7

12

NO

 

5

20

YES

71

53

12

NO

 

6

14

YES

44

29.6

14.6

NO

 

7

17

YES

45

22

34

YES

STOMACH

1

16

NO

10

1.59

15

NO

 

2

87

YES

53

110

47

YES

 

3

12

YES

44

40

24

NO

 

4

108

YES

29

26.5

71

YES

 

5

15

YES

24

18.7

24

NO

 

6

500

YES

90

51

30

NO

 

7

86

NO

36

21.7

18

NO

 

8

11

YES

40

20.7

10

NO

ILEUM

1

58

YES

49

35

 

NO

RECTUM

1

27

NO

51

36.5

13

NO

 

2

322

NO

56

27

31

NO

 

3

18

NO

3

7.3

19

NO

SIGMOID

1

23

YES

16

16

10

NO

 

2

83

NO

18

3

10.4

NO

  1. * alcoholism as discharge diagnosis.