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Wide metastatic spreading in infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the breast.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Feb 2004
Ferlicot S, Vincent-Salomon A, Médioni J, Genin P, Rosty C, Sigal-Zafrani B, Fréneaux P, Jouve M, Thiery J-P, Sastre-Garau X
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to determine whether the metastatic potential of breast cancer could be related to phenotypic characteristics of the tumour. Therefore, we compared the metastatic patterns of invasive lobular (ILC) and ductal (IDC) carcinomas. In ILC, we also analysed this pattern according to the histological subtype of the primary and the E-cadherin (EC) expression level. Metastatic ILC cases (n=96)...
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