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. 2011 Jan;13(1):48–56. doi: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2010.11.001

Table 3.

Distribution of Tissue of Origin Test Results by Tumor Type

Specimen (abbreviation) No. of specimens Distribution of Tissue of Origin Test results result across the 15 tissues on the Tissue of Origin Test panel
BL BR CO GA GC KI LI LU LY ME OV PA PR SC TH
Bladder (BL) 29 23 1 1 4
Breast (BR) 57 55 2
Colorectal (CO) 36 33 1 1 1
Gastric (GA) 25 5 18 1 1
Germ Cell (GC) 25 1 1 21 2
Kidney (KI) 28 25 3
Hepatocellular (LI) 25 24 1
Non-Small Cell Lung (LU) 27 1 1 23 1 1
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (LY) 29 2 26 1
Melanoma (ME) 25 2 21 2
Ovarian (OV) 45 1 1 40 2 1
Pancreas (PA) 28 2 1 24 1
Prostate (PR) 25 1 24
Sarcoma (SC) 27 1 1 1 24
Thyroid (TH) 31 1 2 28
Total 462 23 59 46 24 21 27 24 23 28 21 45 29 24 40 28

The confusion matrix highlights, on the diagonal in bold, the high level of overall agreement of the test results with the reference diagnoses. The results off the diagonal identify the test results that do not agree with the reference diagnosis.