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A case-control study of reproductive factors associated with subtypes of breast cancer in Northeast China.
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) - 1 Sept 2010
Xing Peng, Li Jiguang, Jin Feng
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Based on the expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and HER2/neu (HER2), breast cancer is classified into several subtypes: luminal A (ER+ and/or PR+, HER2-), luminal B (ER+ and/or PR+, HER2+), HER2-overexpressing (ER-, PR-, and HER2+) and triple-negative (ER-, PR-, and HER2-). The aim of this case-control study is to determine reproductive factors associated with breast cancer subtypes...
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