Detection of oncological risk groups in infiltrative lung tuberculosis patients

Abstract

Lung cancer early detection is closely linked with selection of risk groups, that are persons suffering from preneoplastic diseases. High risk groups have a greater probability of any cancer development compared with a common population (Denisov L.E. e t al., 1980). The examples given above demonstrate that high risk patients could show the absence of active tuberculosis and intoxication features with tendency to standardization of blood indices and liver functional parameters and at the same time their beta-2 MG and ferritin radioimmunological levels are not diminished; but previous or even increasing. Hyperferritinemia should cause a great suspiciousness, especially oncological, because these parameters (beta-2 MG and ferritin) could characterize not only a high intoxication but a neoplastic process either. A principally new approach to early detection of a malignancy (even before morphological changes) became possible after oncological markers’ discovery.