Table 1.
Size of the abstract sets returned from queries of breast and lung cancer
|
Breast cancer |
Lung cancer |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biofluid | Positives | Negatives | Biofluid | Positives | Negatives |
| Bile |
360 |
40,250 |
Bile |
328 |
40,290 |
| Blood |
18,939 |
1,540,721 |
Blood |
15,710 |
1,522,046 |
| Breastmilk |
1,047 |
17,874 |
Breastmilk |
99 |
18,834 |
| CSF |
252 |
42,711 |
CSF |
298 |
42,676 |
| Mucus |
116 |
25,122 |
Mucus |
1,445 |
23,801 |
| Plasma |
4,327 |
342,415 |
Plasma |
3,227 |
343,678 |
| Saliva |
149 |
22,694 |
Saliva |
86 |
22,770 |
| Semen |
40 |
12,956 |
Semen |
9 |
12,989 |
| Serum |
7,410 |
415,218 |
Serum |
6,029 |
412,897 |
| SF |
18 |
7,699 |
SF |
18 |
7,671 |
| Stool |
123 |
37,574 |
Stool |
90 |
37,619 |
| Sweat |
321 |
11,079 |
Sweat |
88 |
11,673 |
| Tears |
40 |
11,651 |
Tears |
10 |
11,673 |
| Urine |
1,154 |
125,462 |
Urine |
918 |
86,776 |
| Total | 34,296 | 2,653,396 | Total | 28,355 | 2,595,034 |
CSF = cerebrospinal fluid; SF = synovial fluid.