Table 3. Previous published studies which evaluated EBNA-1 by IHC on breast cancer specimens.
| First author, year | EBNA-1 positive/Total | % of cells stained |
| Bonnet[10] 1999 | 9/9* | 5–30 |
| Brink[27] 2000 | 1/5* | NA |
| Chu[31]2001 | 12/48 | <1 |
| Grinstein[15] 2002 | 14/33 | 5–30 |
| Deshpande [32]2002 | 0/43 | 0 |
| Hermann [7]2003 | 0/59 | 0 |
| Roberio-Silva[14] 2004 | 29/73 | NA |
| Preciado [12] 2005 | 24/69 | 5–60 |
| Shereen Fawzy[13] 2008 | 10/40 | 5–60 |
IHC was done on EBV-DNA PCR positive samples only.