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. 2021 Mar 30;13(7):1592. doi: 10.3390/cancers13071592

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Flow chart of the study population and PAM50 breast cancer intrinsic subtype distribution between tumor sites. ^a Patients were excluded from the study population due to any of the following reasons: sample being unavailable, no tumor tissue in the available sample, only locoregional sample available, or unsuccessful RNA extraction. ^b Patients were excluded due to unsuccessful NanoString Breast Cancer 360 (BC360) assay or because PAM50 subtypes could not be assigned. Abbreviations: CTC: circulating tumor cell; DM: distant metastasis; HER2: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; LNM: lymph node metastasis; MBC: metastatic breast cancer; PT: primary tumor.