Magnesium in stomach cancer.

Experiments were conducted in order to determine magnesium concentrations in stomach cancer tissue. As a control, non-cancerous stomach tissue of the same patients was used. Mg concentration in blood serum was also tested in all patients undergoing surgical operation. It has been determined that Mg concentration was higher in cancerous stomach tissue than in control tissue. Average Mg concentration in the blood serum of patients with stomach cancer fluctuates near the lower limit of normal. An analysis of the relationship between Mg concentration and the degree of clinical advancement of cancer has shown that Mg concentration in cancerous stomach tissue increases with the clinical stage. The results obtained were statistically significant. They show that there is a relationship between Mg concentration and the development of stomach cancer.