Frequency of ABO Blood Group and Decreased Level ofHemoglobin in Lung Cancer Patients

Abstract

The present study was done in Cancer Hospital and Research Institute Gwalior (MP) to find out the frequency of ABO blood group and hemoglobin levels in lung cancer patients. ABO blood group is one of the main factor in patient’s genetic makeup and found to be associated with many diseases. Lung cancer is one of the major cancer affecting a large population now a day throughout the world. The frequency of B blood group was found to be highest with percentile frequency of 0.38 followed by O i.e. 0.33 in lung cancer patients. The ᵪ2 value found to be 0.954 (p = 0.328<0.05). Low hemoglobin level (Anemia) was also found in cancer patients, Z test value 2.3324 (p= 0.0198<0.05) indicated the hemoglobin level was significantly lower in male patients than female patients. Z test value for the hemoglobin levels of smoker and non smoker lung cancer patients was found to be 3.1226 (p =0.0018<0.001) which showed significant lower level of hemoglobin in lung cancer patients with smoking habits than the non smoker lung cancer patients.