Table 7: Comparison of blood counts in patients with normal (N) or depressed (D) chemotaxis 24 hrs after X-irradiation. The chemotaxis numbers present the mean number of migrated PMN per high-power field after counting 20 high-power fields ± standard deviation. The numbers of blood cells present mean number (K/l) ± standard deviation.

Subjects

 

Numbers

Chemotaxis

WBC

PMN

Lymphocytes

Monocytes

Lung Cancer

Da

Nb

9

5

77.2±21.2

128.1±10.6

7.0±4.0

5.7±2.7

5.4±3.8

4.7±1.6

0.62±0.31

0.53±0.48

0.40±0.23

0.46±0.14

Head and Neck Cancer

D

N

12

5

88.0±19.6

140.3±22.1

7.2±2.4

7.0±1.2

5.8±2.3

4.3±1.6

1.14±0.69

1.58±1.12

0.57±0.3

0.55±0.3

Breast Cancer

D

11

79.2±23.2

4.3±1.2

3.1±0.7

1.01±0.55

0.29±0.13

Other

D

N

14

9

74.7±19.9

128.6±25.2

6.6±4.4

8.4±5.2

4.8±4.5

7.1±4.9

1.08±0.65

0.90±0.50

0.59±0.32

0.45±0.16

aD = Depressed chemotaxis

bN = Normal chemotaxis