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Pathologic prognostic factors for patients with breast carcinoma. Which factors are important
N Weidner1, B Cady, W H Goodson
1Department of Pathology, Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.
Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Current technologies can identify subsets of patients who are at greater risk for developing recurrent carcinoma. This article presents conventional and generally accepted pathologic features of breast carcinoma that allow breast carcinoma patients to be placed into low-risk or high-risk categories for recurrence-free or overall survival. Also, the role of flow cytometry, estrogen-progesterone receptor measurement, tumor angiogenesis, and selection oncoprotein expression, such as c-erbB2, are reviewed.