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. 2021 Mar 2;25(8):3680–3698. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.16397

TABLE 3.

Breast cancer subtypes

Non‐invasive histological types
Adenocarcinoma (99.9%) Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (80.1%)
Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) (15.9%)
Intraductal and lobular in situ carcinoma (3.4%)
Other adenocarcinomas (0.5%)
Other in situ histologies (0.1%)
Invasive histological types a
Carcinoma (99.5%) Adenocarcinoma (97.7%) Infiltrating duct carcinoma (72.4%)
Lobular carcinoma, NOS (9.9%)
Mixed NST and special subtypes (9.7%)
Mucinous adenocarcinoma (1.8%)
Other adenocarcinomas (1.5%)
Papillary adenocarcinoma (0.8%)
Adenocarcinoma NOS (0.6%)
Tubular adenocarcinoma (0.5%)
Paget disease (0.3%)
Inflammatory adenocarcinoma (0.2%)
Unspecified, carcinoma, NOS (0.9%)
Other specific carcinoma (0.8%)
Epidermoid carcinoma (cca. 0.2%)
Sarcoma and soft tissue tumours (0.1%) Hemangiosarcomas (cca. 0.1%)
Other sarcomas (cca. 0.1%)
Other specific types (0.2%) Phyllodes tumour, malignant (0.2%)
Other (0.0%)
Unspecified (0.2%)
Intrinsic subtype IHC status Grade Prevalence
Luminal type A (ER+, PR+), HER2‐, Ki‐67‐(<15%) 1/2 23.7%
Luminal type B

(ER+, PR+), HER2‐, Ki‐67+(>15%)

(ER+, PR‐), HER2‐, Ki‐67+(>15%)

2/3

38.8%

14%

HER2 (ER‐, PR‐), HER2+ 2/3 11.2%
Basal (ER‐, PR‐), HER2‐, basal markers+ 3 12.3%
Normal like (ER+, PR+), HER2‐, Ki‐67‐ (<15%) 1/2/3 7.8%

Abbreviations: IHC, immunohistochemical status; ER, oestrogen receptor; PR, progesterone receptor. Cut‐off value for Ki‐67 is 15%. Summarized from. 31 , 58 , 78

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Summarized from the SEER database.