. 2010 Jul 1;31(6):559–567. doi: 10.1007/s13277-010-0069-x

Table 2.

SCCA concentrations (Abbott IMX SCCA assay) in the protein extracts of normal unstimulated (day 0) and stimulated (day 3) peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and of tissue samples as well as in the sera from patients with VSCC

	Donor number				Patient number
Healthy donor PBMC	I	II	III	IV
Unstimulated	0	0	0	0
Stimulated	2.7	2.7	1.4	1.8
Samples of VSCC					12	13	15	30	34	38	53
Tumour					850	4890	19000	1850	6000	481	1600
Adjacent uninvolved tissue					2920	290	2000	946	1650	194	818
Metastatic lymph node					x	x	35300	810	3600	609	579
Uninvolved lymph node					0.3^a	0^a	24	600	274	2.5	0
					740	0.7
						0
Serum					n.d	0.9	n.d.	n.d.	5.6	1.8	2

Concentrations of SCCA in the cells and post-surgical samples are presented in nanogram per milligram of cell protein and in the sera in nanogram per millilitre of serum

x no metastatic nodes found, n.d. not determined

^aMore than one lymph node of this patient was tested