serum levels of proteins previously shown to be elevated [ acute-phase proteins ( app ) -haptoglobin , alpha 1-acid glycoprotein , alpha 1-antitrypsin ] or depressed ( alpha 2 hs-glycoprotein , prealbumin , albumin ) in cancer patients were correlated with tumor extent , in vitro lymphocyte reactivity ( lr ) to phytohemagglutinin ( pha ) , and quantitative delayed hypersensivity ( dh ) to dinitrochlorobenzene ( dncb ) in 147 preoperative patients with operable solid malignancies either confined to the primary site or with regional spread only .
C0001347
acute-phase proteins
C0018595
haptoglobin