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Cancer Matrix  


Staging
Anal Canal
Ampulla of Vater
Bone
Breast
Carcinoma of the Skin
Cervix Uteri
Chronic Leukemias
Colon and Rectum
Common Cytogenetic Markers
Corpus Uteri
Esophagus
Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
Fallopian Tube
Gallbladder
Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
Immunohistochemical Markers
Indications for Blood & Marrow Transplantation
Kaposi's Sarcoma
Kidney
Larynx
Lip & Oral Cavity
Liver (Including Intrahepatic Bile Ducts)
Lung
Lymphoid Neoplasms
Major Salivary Glands
Melanoma of the Skin
Multiple Myeloma
Nasal Cavity & Paranasal Sinuses
Ovary
Pancreas
Penis
Pharynx
Pleural Mesothelioma
Prostate
Small Intestine
Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Stomach
Testis
Thyroid
Urethra
Urinary Bladder
Vagina
Vulva

 

Markers for Solid Tumors
Immunohistochemical Markers*
Edward H. Lin, MD, and Tsung-Teh Wu, MD

  CK7+ (other specific markers also listed) CK7- (other specific markers also listed)
CK20+
  • Bladder
  • Pancreatic
  • Mucinous ovarian
  • Colon
CK20-
  • Breast (BCDP, ER/PR, Her-2/Neu)
  • Lung (TTF-1)
  • Serous ovarian (psammoma bodies, WT-1)
  • Endometrial (ER/PR)
  • Mesothelioma (calretinin)
  • Thymoma (psammoma bodies, T-cell markers)
  • Liver (hepatocyte antigen)
  • Renal
  • Prostate (PSA)
  • Squamous (CK5+ or CK6+)
  • Neuroendocrine (chromogranin A, synaptophysin,
    neuron-specific enolase)
  • Melanoma (S100, HMB45, tyrosinase-related
    protein, vimentin)
  • Lymphoma (CD45 [LCA] positive, B-cell or T-cell
    marker positive, pancytokeratin negative)

BCDP, breast cystic disease protein; CK, cytokeratin; ER, estrogen receptor; PR, progesterone receptor; PSA, prostate-specific
antigen; TTF-1, thyroid transcription factor-1; WT-1, Wilms' tumor protein-1.
*Gastric cancer may have any of the four patterns of expression of CK7 and CK20.

Wang NP, Zee S, Zarbo RJ, Bacchi CE, Gown AM. Coordinate expression of cytokeratins 7 and 20 defines unique subsets of carcinomas. Appl Immunohistochem 3:99, 1995.
Chu P, Wu E, Weiss LM. Cytokeratin 7 and cytokeratin 20 expression in epithelial neoplasms: a survey of 435 cases. Mod Pathol 13:962, 2000.

 
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