[Effectiveness of the glutathione s-transferase assay in diagnosing lung cancer].

: The paper deals with a description of a procedure of immunoradiometric assay of glutathione S-transferase pi in blood serum. A significantly increased level of said enzyme of more than 9.85 ng/ml in 75% of patients with different cancers of the lung has been established, as compared with non-tumor pathologies. These findings point to the feasibility of application of this enzyme in lung cancer diagnose.