Test category · Laboratory

Cancer & tumour markers

Proteins and genetic changes measured in blood or tissue to help evaluate, stage, guide and monitor cancer. A marker alone rarely diagnoses cancer.

Tests with a page

No test in this category has a full page yet. The concepts below are catalogued and waiting to be written to the site's quality standard.

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) Laboratory test
  • Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) Laboratory test
  • Thyroglobulin (Tg) Laboratory test
  • Calcitonin Laboratory test
  • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) Laboratory test
  • Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) Laboratory test
  • CA-125 (CA 125) Laboratory test
  • CA 19-9 Laboratory test
  • CA 15-3 Laboratory test
  • hCG (tumour marker) Laboratory test
  • Beta-2 microglobulin (β2M) Laboratory test
  • Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) Laboratory test
  • Urine protein electrophoresis (UPEP) Laboratory test
  • Immunofixation (IFE) Laboratory test
  • Serum free light chains (SFLC) · also: kappa/lambda light chains Laboratory test
  • BCR-ABL · also: BCR-ABL1 Genetic / molecular
  • JAK2 mutation (JAK2) Genetic / molecular
  • CALR mutation (CALR) Genetic / molecular
  • MPL mutation (MPL) Genetic / molecular
  • EGFR mutation (EGFR) Genetic / molecular
  • ALK rearrangement (ALK) Genetic / molecular
  • ROS1 rearrangement (ROS1) Genetic / molecular
  • KRAS mutation (KRAS) Genetic / molecular
  • NRAS mutation (NRAS) Genetic / molecular
  • BRAF mutation (BRAF) Genetic / molecular
  • HER2 status (HER2) · also: ERBB2 Pathology
  • BRCA1 Genetic / molecular
  • BRCA2 Genetic / molecular
  • Microsatellite instability (MSI) Genetic / molecular
  • Mismatch repair testing (MMR) · also: dMMR Pathology
  • PD-L1 expression (PD-L1) Pathology
  • NTRK fusion (NTRK) Genetic / molecular
  • RET alteration (RET) Genetic / molecular
  • MET alteration (MET) Genetic / molecular
  • IDH mutation (IDH) Genetic / molecular
  • MGMT methylation (MGMT) Genetic / molecular
  • Tumour genomic panel · also: comprehensive genomic profiling Genetic / molecular
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