Table 1.
Tissue specimen | Melanoma metastasis | Adjacent “normal” tissue | Pseudostratified respiratory epithelium within normal tissue | Peritumoral stroma |
---|---|---|---|---|
Heart muscle with melanoma metastasis | 2.2 | 0.4 | ND | ND |
Liver with melanoma metastasis | 1.5 | 4.3 | ND | ND |
Lung with melanoma metastasis 1 | 7.1 | 9.8 | 21 | 14 |
Lung with melanoma metastasis 2 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 5.5 | 2.8 |
Lung with melanoma metastasis 3 | 9.4 | 2.5 | ND | ND |
Colon with melanoma metastasis | 3.3 | 1.6 –34 | ND | ND |
Mean in mitotic cells (lung with melanoma metastasis 2)** | 27 | ND | ND | ND |
Mean in mitotic cells (SLM2 melanoma)* | 419.5 | ND | ND | ND |
Specific staining densities were calculated as described in Methods. ND = not done.
mean for mitotic cells (n=5) in Lung melanoma metastasis 1 (Figure 5C).
mean for mitotic cells (n=5) in SLM2 melanoma cells in vitro.