Basal phenotype breast cancer: implications for treatment and prognosis.

doi:10.2217/whe.11.5

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Basal phenotype breast cancer: implications for treatment and prognosis.

Women's health (London, England) - 1 Mar 2011

Pazaiti Anastasia, Fentiman Ian S

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Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in females. The origins and biology of breast carcinomas remain unclear. Cellular and molecular heterogeneity results in different distinct groups of tumors with different clinical behavior and prognosis. Gene expression profiling has delineated five mo...

Topics

Adenocarcinoma
Biomarkers, Tumor
Breast Neoplasms
Female
Humans
Myoepithelioma
Phenotype
Prognosis
Receptors, Estrogen
Recurrence

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