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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Oncol. 2015 Sep 15;10(1):138–147. doi: 10.1016/j.molonc.2015.09.002

Table 1.

Characteristics of 270 clinical samples used in the study.

Characteristics %
Patient specimen
 Surgical resection 255 95
 Diagnostic core biopsy 6 2
 Recurrent disease 9 3
Histological grade
 G1 16 6
 G2 112 41
 G3 134 50
 Unknown 8 3
Pathological stage T
 Tx–T1 143 53
 T2–T4 123 46
 Unknown 4 1
Pathological stage N
 Nx–N0 147 54
 N1–N3 119 44
 Unknown 4 1
Hormone receptor status (HR)
 Negative 47 17
 Positive 223 83
HER2 overexpression by IHC
 0 39 14
 1 49 18
 2 49 18
 3 133 49