33 Special Types of Invasive Breast Carcinoma: Diagnostic Criteria ...
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Basal-like and triple-negative breast cancers<br />
<strong>Breast</strong> cancer encompasses multiple entities with distinct morphological features and<br />
clinical behaviors – that is, diversity resulting from distinct genetic, epigenetic, and<br />
transcriptomic alterations. This is true for invasive ductal carcinomas <strong>of</strong> no special<br />
type (IDC-NST), wherein tumors <strong>of</strong> the similar histological appearance and grade may<br />
have different outcomes and responses to systemic therapy. This results from not only<br />
individual tumor characteristics, but also from patient-specific characteristics (such as<br />
immune and angiogenic response). These patient or tumor characteristics interact in<br />
poorly understood ways and determine the eventual natural history <strong>of</strong> the disease.<br />
Using gene expression microarrays, some have proposed a new taxonomy for breast<br />
cancer based on their molecular features. This microarray approach has identified at<br />
least five molecular breast cancer subtypes: 1) luminal A, 2) luminal B, 3) normal<br />
breast-like, 4) HER2 over-expressing, and 5) basal-like. Although incompletely<br />
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