“…Urinary excretion of methylated nucleosides, which results from increased turnover and degradation of RNA, especially from transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA), has been shown to be excreted in increased amounts in the urine of patients with different types of tumours and AIDS (Nakano et al, 1993;Xu et al, 2000;Yang et al, 2004;Zheng et al, 2005). Elevated levels of modified nucleosides have been found in urine from patients with leukaemia and lymphoma (Rasmuson and Björk, 1995), cancer of the lung (McEntire et al, 1989), oesophagus (Masuda et al, 1993), breast (Rasmuson et al, 1987;Nakano et al, 1993;Sasco et al, 1996;Zheng et al, 2005), renal cell carcinoma (Koshida et al, 1985), ovarian cancer (Oerlemans and Lange, 1986), liver cancer (Yang et al, 2004), tumours of the bladder (Kvist et al, 1993), colon cancer (Holstege et al, 1986) and Hodgkin's disease (Martinow et al, 1998).…”