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Path7 Flashcards

Tumor Markers

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PSA

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Prostate-Specific Antigen
Used to follow up prostate carcinoma

*can also be elevated in BPH and Prostatitis

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Prostatic Acid Phosphatase

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Prostate Carcinoma

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CEA

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CarcinoEmbryonic Antigen
Very Non-Specific but
Produced by ~ 70% of Colorectal and Pancreatic Cancers
Also produced by gastric, breast, and medullary thyroid carcinomas

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alpha-fetoprotein

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Hepatocellular carcinomas

Nonseminomatous germ cell tumors (e.g., testis, ovary)

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beta-hCG

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Hydatidiform moles
Choroicarcinomas
(Gestational trophoblastic disease)

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CA-125

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Ovarian cancer

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S-100

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Melanoma
Neural Tumors
Schwannomas

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Alkaline phosphatase

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Metastases to:
- bone
- liver
Paget’s disease of bone

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Bombesin

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Neuroblastoma
Lung
Gastric

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TRAP (Tartrate-Resistant Acid Phosphatase)

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Hairy cell leukemia – B-cell neoplasm

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CA-19-9

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Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

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Calcitonin

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Medullary thyroid cancinoma

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