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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Pathol. 2009;4:127–150. doi: 10.1146/annurev.pathol.4.110807.092311

Table 1. Incidence of PTEN and PIK3CA mutations in human cancers.

Primary tumor tissue Percentage of tumors with mutation/number of samples
PIK3CA PTEN
% # % #
Prostate 29 7 14 371
Breast 27 987 6 561
Endometrium 23 199 38 1467
Colon 15 1128 9 344
Urinary tract 17 162 9 142
Upper aerodigestive tract 10 229 4 529
Ovary 8 670 8 574
Stomach 8 362 5 446
Liver 7 253 5 354
Esophagus 7 124 1 94
Pancreas 6 66 1 67
Central nervous system 5 808 20 2758
Hematopoietic and lymphoid tissue 4 510 6 866
Lung 3 537 8 548
Skin 3 149 17 555
Thyroid 2 186 5 591