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RESEARCH ARTICLE The Characteristics of Breast Cancer Subtypes: Implications for Treatment Guidelines and Individualized Treatment Strategies in China Shan Zheng, PhD,* Qing-Kun Song, PhD,w Yu Ren, PhD,z Wei-Liang Feng, MS,y Ya-Nan Kong, MS,8 Rong Huang, MS,wz Feng Xu, PhD,# Jing Li, PhD,w Bao-Ning Zhang, BS,** Jin-Hu Fan, BS,w Jian-Jun He, PhD,z and You-Lin Qiao, PhDw may give some suggestions for updating treatment guidelines and Abstract: This study aimed at investigating the characteristics of individualized treatment strategies in China. invasive breast cancer among molecular subtypes. Patients with Key Words: breast carcinoma, subtype, age, regional socio- invasive breast cancer, with complete information on the ex- economic status, nationwide pressions of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2), were recruited. w (Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 2014;22:383–389) tests and an unconditional logistic regression model were used for statistical analysis. The percentages of luminal A, luminal B, HER2/neu, and triple-negative subtypes were 54.2% (1639/3021), reast cancer is one of the diseases that seriously 14.0% (422/3021), 8.9% (269/3021), and 22.9% (691/3021), re- Bthreaten women’s health. In 2008, breast cancer ac- spectively. Differences among molecular subtypes (P<0.05) in counted for 23% (1.38 million) of total cancer cases and tumor size, stage, pathologic
Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: May 1, 2014
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