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Optimization of a Multiplex RNA-based Expression Assay Using Breast Cancer Archival Material
Published on: August 1, 2018
[Study on clinicopathological classification and clinical and pathological characteristics in breast cancer]
1Department of Breast Center, the First Hospital of Peking University, Beijing 100034, China.
Objective:
To explored the relationship of clinicopathological classification and clinical and pathological characteristics of breast cancer and analyze the value in treatment.
Methods:
The patients with invasive breast carcinoma had been treated between January 2011 and December 2012. The breast cancer have been divided into luminal A, luminal B, HER2-positive and triple-negative subtypes according to criteria of St. Gallen International Expert Consensus report 2011. The Mann-Whitney test and Kruskal-Wallis test were used to analyze the relationships between four subtypes and TNM staging, histopathological grading.
Results:
The 530 cases of invasive breast cancer patients were included in this study. The luminal A was 94 cases (17.7%), the luminal B was of 285 cases (53.8%), the HER2-positive was 59 cases (11.1%), and the triple-negative subtype was 92 cases (17.4%). In luminal B subtype, the HER2-positive was 56 (19.6%) and negative was 229 (80.4%). Most of luminal B was later in grade (71.7% of cases were more than II grade) and stage (66.7% were more than stage II).
Conclusions:
Clinical pathological classification is important in the individualized treatments of breast cancer, and the Luminal types (A+B) are more than 71.5% of all breast cancer patients, and they should be paid more attention to the endocrine therapy; Luminal B type accounted for 53.8% of all breast cancer and it needs further study to improve the precision of the diagnosis and treatment.
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