[The following serum tumor markers are elevated above normal levels in 50 percent or more of patients with various malignant neoplasms: Alpha-fetoprotein in yolk sac tumors, hepatomas, retinoblastomas, embryonal carcinomas, breast carcinomas, and carcinomas of uterine cervix; Carcinoembryonic antigen in colon carcinomas, choriocarcinomas, pancreatic carcinomas, medullary thyroid carcinomas, osteosarcomas, retinoblastomas, ovarian cystadenocarcinomas, mycosis fungoides, hepatomas, esophageal carcinomas, adenocarcinomas of uterine cervix, lung carcinomas, carcinomas of small intestine, urinary bladder carcinomas, and renal cell carcinomas; Human chorionic gonadotrophin in choriocarcinomas, malignant interstitial cell tumors of testis, non seminomatous tumors of testis, embryonal carcinomas, and pancreatic carcinomas.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE