“…Apart from iron, copper, and zinc, the concentrations of some other elements, such as calcium, potassium, cadmium, nickel, rubidium, selenium, magnesium, and manganese, also differ between cancer tissues and the related normal tissues. − For example, remarkably higher selenium concentrations were observed in gastric cancer tissues than in normal gastric mucosal tissues . Similarly, potassium abnormality is associated with gastric cancer and other intestinal adenocarcinomas, and a high potassium level in tumor tissues is related to lymphatic duct metastasis .…”