Functional significance of erythropoietin receptor on tumor cells

Table 1 Presence of Epo and EpoR in the tumors of different tissues of the body. Symbol + in the columns indicate the presence of particular item in the tumor and - indicate either it is not tested or it is absent

Tissue of origin	EpoR	Epo	References
Breast cancer	+	+	[8, 10, 13]
Glioma cell line, U87	+	-	[12]
Cervical cancer cell line, HT100	+	-	[12]
Epithelial ovarian carcinoma	+	-	[11]
Renal carcinoma	+	+	[9]
Nuroblastoma	+	-	[14]
Prostate cancer cells	+	-	[15]
Glioblastoma	+	+	[16]
Gastric cancer	+	+	[16]
Stomach choriocarcinoma	+	+	[16]
Lung small cell carcinoma	+	+	[16]
Pancreatic cancer	+	+	[16]
Head & neck squamous cell carcinoma	+	+	[18]
Hepatic tumor	+	+	[17]