cancer diagnosis
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- cancer with high AP
- alkaline phosphatase is elevated with metastasis to liver and lung
- which cancers might secrete exogenous hormone that affects calcium and phosphate serum levels?
- thyroid
- PSA
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prostate cancer screening
prognosis for prostate cancer (will indicate how tumor will behave) - beta HCG
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choriocarcinoma of the testes
ovarian cancer too - CEA
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carcinoid embryonic antigen
adenocarcinoma of the colon
other adenocarcinomas too
used to quantify tumor burden and check for remission - Ca125
- specific for ovarian cancer
- Bence Jones proteins
- found in urine with multiple myeloma
- alpha fetoprotein
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hepatocellular carcinoma
or germ cell tumor - LCA
- leukocyte common antigen - lymphoid tumor
- cytokeratin
- epithelial origin - carcinoma
- desmin
- muscle origin
- synaptophysin
- neuroendocrine
- neuron specific enolase
- neuroendocrine
- NSE
- neuron specific enolase -neuroendocrine
- chromogranin
- neuroendocrine
- ErbB-2
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if breast cancer shows this, you can give anti-ErbB-2 antibodies in treatment
also prognostic - Estrogen receptor
- prognostic for breast cancer
- P-glycoprotein
- P-glycoprotein is encoded by MDR1 gene and indicates poor prognosis