Variability in hormone and growth factor receptor expression in primary versus recurrent, metastatic, and post-neoadjuvant breast carcinoma

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-37

  Jabbour, Mark N ^a   Massad, Cleo Y ^a   Boulos, Fouad I ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Her 2 neu receptor; Local recurrence; Lymph node; Metastasis; Neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Progesterone receptor

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TAMOXIFEN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865133552     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2047-z     Document Type: Review

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