Article
Clinicopathological characteristics of oestrogen receptor negative, progesterone receptor positive breast cancers: re-evaluating subsets within this group.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Apr 2017
Ahmed Syed Salahuddin, Thike Aye Aye, Zhang Kathryn, Lim Jeffrey Chun Tatt, Tan Puay Hoon
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: The presence of oestrogen and progesterone receptors (ER, PR) in breast carcinoma is an important prognostic indicator as well as a predictor of likely response to hormonal treatment. Current ambiguity surrounds ER-negative (-)/PR-positive (+) breast cancer (BC) as to whether this phenotype...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Breast Neoplasms
- Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
- Female
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Kaplan-Meier Estimate
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Estrogen
- Receptors, Progesterone
- Tissue Array Analysis