Breast Conservative Therapy for Multifocal–Multicentric Breast Cancers
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HER2 Intermediate Breast Cancers.
To the Editor: We were interested to read the article by Gilcrease et al ‘‘Even low level Her2 expression may be associated with worse outcome in node positive breast cancer’’ that discusses the significance of low but nonnegative Her2 protein levels in the prognosis of breast cancer. As the authors note, the conventional immunohistochemical scoring system for Her2 includes cases with 1+ expres...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0364-2313,1432-2323
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-016-3539-5