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Table 4 Sensitive markers for specific metastases, these markers are negative in breast cancer

From: Non-primary breast malignancies: a single institution’s experience of a diagnostic challenge with important therapeutic consequences—a retrospective study

Primary origin

Marker

Lung adenocarcinoma

TTF-1

Lung small cell carcinoma

TTF-1, CD56

Melanoma

HMB45, Melan-A

Ovarian cancer

Pax-8, WT1, Ca 125

Colorectal carcinoma

CDX2, CK20

Malignant B cell lymphoma

CD20, CD79a

Renal cell carcinoma

Pax-5, RCC

Choriocarcinoma

HCG-beta

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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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