High incidence of oestrogen receptor negative progesterone receptor positive phenotype in Indian breast cancer: fact or fiction?

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The incidence of oestrogen receptor negative and progesterone receptor positive (ER-/PR+) invasive breast carcinoma is reported to be as high as 21% in India, as compared to 3-5% in the western literature. We used automated immunohistochemistry with Biogenex antibodies to re-evaluate the ER status in 37 Indian patients with invasive breast carcinomas previously reported as ER-/PR+ by a different manual staining...

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