Tumor markers mnemonics

Alfa fetoprotein (AFP)

Henry Thought Liver Not Very Good = Hepatocellular, Testicular, Liver Cirrhosis, Neural Tube Defects, Viral Hepatitis, GI tract malignancies

CA-125

Oh Every Pretty Lady Has Painful Periods = (Ovarian, Endometrial, Pancreatic, Liver, Hepatitis, Pregnancy, Peritonitis)

CA 19-9

Baby Boys Can't Play House - (Breast, Biliary, Colorectal, Pancreatic, Hepatic)

Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA)

Creepy Guys Only Pay Pretty Busty Loose Ladies (Colorectal adenocarcinoma, GI cancer, Ovarian, Pancreatic, Prostate, Breast, Lung, Liver)

Calcitonin

Many Mighty Men (Metastatic Cancer, Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome, Medullary Thyroid Cancer)

Human chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)

Two Good Gonads (Testicular, Gestational trophoblastic tumors, gonal germ cell neoplasm

CD-117

leimyosarcoma (uterine cancer)

Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA)

prostate cancer

Neuron Specific Enolase (NSE)

NSM =
-neuroblastoma
- small cell cancer of the lung
- medullary thyroid cancter (MTC)