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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nutr Cancer. 2018 May 21;70(5):804–820. doi: 10.1080/01635581.2018.1470653

Table 1.

Breast Cancer Classification.a

Intrinsic Subtype Clinico-pathologic definition Immunohistochemistry Status
Prognosisc
ER and/or PR HER2 overexpression Ki-67

Luminal A Luminal A Positive No Low Good
Luminal B Luminal B (HER2 negative) Positive No High Intermediate
Luminal B (HER2 positive) Positive Yes Any Poor
HER2 overexpressionb HER2 positive (nonluminal) Absent Yes Not defined Poor
Basal-like Triple negative (ductal) Absent No Not defined Very Poor
a

Table adapted from St Gallen International Expert Consensus Panel (3).

b

Listed in original source as "Erb-B2 overexpression".

c

Prognoses adapted from Dai 2015 (5).