Table 1.

Examples of cancers with overexpressed growth factor receptors.

Receptor for	Cancer
EGF	Head and neck, breast, colon, lung, prostate, kidney, ovary, brain, pancreas, bladder
PDGF	Brain, prostate
PSMA	Metastatic prostate cancer, neovasculature of solid tumors
Her-2	Breast, cervical, lung
FGF	Melanoma, Kaposi sarcoma, pancreatic
Transferrin	Leukemia, brain, colon, kidney, bladder

EGF, epidermal growth factor; PDGF, platelet derived growth factor; IGF, insulin like growth factor; FGF, fibroblast growth factor.