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DURING an investigation, preceding our work on the decreased zinc-level of whole blood of carcinoma patients in connexion with the progress of the disease1–3, we found that other tissues also (heart, spleen, liver, kidney, etc.) show a decrease of zinc content in carcinoma cases. This is comprehensible because blood flows through all these tissues. It therefore seemed to us to be of interest to analyse blood-free tissues, and hair from the head was chosen for this purpose.
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ADDINK, N., FRANK, L. Zinc Content of Hair from the Head of Carcinoma Patients. Nature 193, 1190–1191 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931190b0
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