Table 3.
hCGβ mRNA Expression, Cancer Specific Mortality, and Number of Type I hCGβ Transcripts in Various Tumor Types
| Type of RCC | hCGβ mRNA in tissue (%) | Dead of RCC
|
Type I hCGβ mRNA number of copies; median (range) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hCGβ mRNA postitive cases | hCGβ mRNA negative cases | |||
| CRCC | 33/79 (42) | 21/33 (64) | 23/46 (50) | 9 (0–475) |
| Chromophobe | 2/5 (40) | 1/2 (50) | 0/3 (0) | 10 (0–80) |
| Papillary | 5/16 (31) | 4/5 (80) | 5/11 (45) | 2 (0–143) |
| Unclassified | 2/4 (50) | 1/2 (50) | 0/2 (0) | 11 (8–14) |
| All | 42/104 (40) | 27/42 (64) | 28/62 (45) | 8 (0–475) |