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Basal breast cancer: a complex and deadly molecular subtype.
Current molecular medicine - 1 Jan 2012
Bertucci F, Finetti P, Birnbaum D
Abstract excerpt
During the last decade, gene expression profiling of breast cancer has revealed the existence of five molecular subtypes and allowed the establishment of a new classification. The basal subtype, which represents 15-25% of cases, is characterized by an expression profile similar to that of myoepithelial normal mammary cells. Basal tumors are frequently assimilated to triple-negative (TN) breast cancers. They...
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