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Secretory breast carcinomas with ETV6-NTRK3 fusion gene belong to the basal-like carcinoma spectrum.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Feb 2009
Laé Marick, Fréneaux Paul, Sastre-Garau Xavier, Chouchane Olfa, Sigal-Zafrani Brigitte, Vincent-Salomon Anne
Abstract excerpt
Secretory breast carcinomas (<0.15% of breast tumors) are associated with a characteristic morphology and a favorable prognosis. Remarkably, this entity is the only epithelial tumor of the breast with a balanced translocation, t(12;15), that creates an ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion encoding chimeric tyrosine kinase also encountered in cellular mesoblastic nephroma and infantile fibrosarcoma. The aim of this study was to...
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