Correlation of catalase with trace elements zinc and copper in urinary bladder cancer patients

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This study was applied on patients having urinary bladder cancer fifty patients were chosing for this study complaining of haematuria, and proofed to have bladder cancer by histopathological study for the biopsy taken from the bladder by cystoscopy performed under general anesthesia.

In this study the type of cancer was transitional cell carcinoma of urinary bladder of different stages.

In this work changes in activity of catalase as enzymatic antioxidant defense mechanism we studied in patients and control groups, the result revealed significant decrease in patient groups compared with control. The changes in level of trace elements copper and zinc are studied in this work, the result revealed an increase level of copper and reduced level of zinc in patients groups in comparism with control groups.