Among these patients, 19 (16 NSCLC and 3 SCLC) out of 22 positive for serum p53Abs resulted also positive for p53 tumour overexpression (86.4%), while 56 (53 NSCLC and 3 SCLC) out of 109 low/negative for serum p53Abs were positive for p53 tumour overexpression (51.4%). Here, TP53 is linked to small cell lung carcinoma.