Human Blood Serum X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Cancer Patients and Pregnant Women

Abstract

Human blood serum samples coming from healthy subjects, cancer patients and pregnant women were studied by X-ray diffraction and compared with the diffraction patterns obtained for pure water. It has been established that the changes in blood serum related to the disease or pregnancy are manifested directly in X-ray diffraction patterns. The diffraction patterns of blood serum of pregnant women have been found similar to those of the blood serum of cancer patients and different from the pattern for pure water. This result indicates that cancer or pregnancy stimulate an increase in the concentration of non-specific proteins or appearance of other factors destroying the structure of water in the blood serum. The changes in the structure of water, making about 92% of the blood serum are manifested directly in the diffraction patterns of the samples by the disappearance of the maximum characteristic of the pattern of pure water in the angular range 8.5 S h 10. Therefore, the X-ray diffraction method can be an effective tool in early diagnostics of neoplasmic changes, but not in pregnant women.