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. 2020 Dec 21;12:1758835920975613. doi: 10.1177/1758835920975613

Table 2.

Frequency of NTRK gene fusions in selected tumor histologies.

Histology Frequency NTRK gene fusions 95% CI
Secretory breast carcinoma 92.87% 72.62–100.00
Fibrosarcoma, infantile (congenital) 90.56% 67.42–100.00
Secretory salivary gland cancer (also known as mammary analogue secretory carcinoma) 79.68% 62.84–96.51
Pigmented spindle cell nevus of Reed 56.52% 34.49–76.81
Pleomorphic adenoma 50.47% 0.00–100.00
Papillary thyroid carcinoma, pediatric 25.93% 11.11–46.28
Differentiated thyroid cancer, pediatric 22.22% 6.41–47.64
Congenital mesoblastic nephroma (all subsets) 21.52% 13.06–32.20
High grade glioma 21.21% 8.98–38.91
Low grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma 20.00% 5.73–43.66
Acinic cell carcinoma of salivary gland 11.11% 4.19–22.63
Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor 10.00% 2.11–26.53
Frequency of NTRK gene fusions in common tumor types
Cervical carcinoma 0.36% 0.00–0.81
Uterine soft tissue sarcoma 0.34% 0.00–0.78
Cutaneous melanoma 0.31% 0.07–0.55
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma 0.31% 0.09–0.53
Colorectal adenocarcinoma 0.26% 0.15–0.36
Neuroendocrine tumors 0.26% 0.07–0.44
Non-small cell lung cancer 0.17% 0.09–0.25
Invasive breast carcinoma 0.10% 0.03–0.18
Examples of primary brain tumors
High grade glioma 21.21% 8.98–38.91
Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor 10.00% 2.11–26.53
High grade glioma, pediatric 6.19% 3.11–9.28
Glial, glioneuronal, and ependymal 3.28% 0.40–11.35
Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors, pediatric 3.03% 0.08–15.76
Low grade glioma, pediatric 1.61% 0.00–3.33
Glioma 0.99% 0.00–2.79
Low grade glioma 0.88% 0.22–1.54
Glioma/neuroepithelial tumor 0.55% 0.24–1.07

CI, confidence interval.