Zinc level in hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis
- Journal of Cancer Prevention & Current Research
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Parth Patel, Abhishek Bansal
Abstract
Zinc exerts essential antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and apoptotic effects and necessary in several regulatory proteins and hormone receptors. The role of zinc in the immune system and its contribution in preserving genome stability are all relevant to cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is viewed as the fifth most common form of malignancy globally and it speaks to the third most common reason of cancer-related death. Many research studies have been done on zinc content in biological materials in liver cancer patients, but it did no longer provided consistent results. Therefore we investigated the prognostic relevance of zinc levels with hepatic carcinomas via meta-analysis.
Keywords
hepatocellular carcinoma, zinc, liver, antioxidant, serum zinc levels, meta-analysis