Table 1. Summary of Immunohistochemical Analysis of Ep-ICD in Normal and Epithelial Cancers.
Tissue Type | Cancer or Normal | Number Tissues (n) | Nuclear Positive (n) | Nuclear Positivity (%) | Cytoplasmic Positive (n) | Cytoplasmic Positivity (%) |
Prostate | Cancer | 49 | 40 | 82 | 40 | 82 |
Normal | 9 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 11 | |
BPH | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
Breast | Cancer | 38 | 31 | 82 | 32 | 84 |
Normal | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head and Neck | Cancer | 57 | 37 | 65 | 42 | 74 |
Normal | 20 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | |
Esophagus | Cancer | 46 | 17 | 37 | 32 | 70 |
Normal | 20 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 30 | |
Lung | Cancer | 59 | 47 | 80 | 56 | 95 |
Colon | Cancer | 59 | 49 | 83 | 46 | 78 |
Ovary | Cancer | 10 | 10 | 100 | 10 | 100 |
Pancreas | Cancer | 10 | 3 | 30 | 2 | 20 |
Liver | Cancer | 9 | 9 | 100 | 8 | 89 |
Bladder | Cancer | 10 | 9 | 90 | 9 | 90 |