HEG1 and breast carcinoma: HEG1 was infrequently expressed in breast carcinoma (4/59; 7%), lung carcinoma (2/37; 5%) and cervical/uterine carcinoma effusions (3/29; 10%), but was often detected in tubo-ovarian carcinoma effusions (80/151; 53%) and surgical specimens (99/139, 71%).