Basal carcinoma of the breast revisited: an old entity with new interpretations.

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The introduction of global gene expression analysis in breast cancer research has focused attention onto a repeatedly described subgroup of invasive breast cancer, the basal-like carcinomas. This subgroup is characterised by the expression of high-molecular weight cytokeratins 5, 14 and 17; using immunohistochemical diagnosis, it represents approximately 7-20% of invasive breast cancers. Some of these tumours...

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