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ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages 1763-1770Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdp245
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breast carcinoma; epithelial breast cancer; prognosis; treatment; triple negative; World Health Organization classification
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Invasive breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease in its presentation, pathological classification and clinical course. However, there are more than a dozen variants which are less common but still very well defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) classification. The rarity of many of these neoplasms does not allow large or randomized studies to define the optimal treatment. Many of the descriptions of these cancers are from case reports and small series. Our review brings updated information on 16 epithelial subtypes as classified by the WHO system with a very concise histopathology description and parameters helpful in the clinic. The aim of our review is to provide a tool for breast cancer caregivers which will enable a better understanding of the disease and its optimal approach to therapy. This may also stand as a clinical framework for a future understanding of these rarer breast cancers when gene analysis work is reported.
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