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. 1991 Mar;63(3):434-8.
doi: 10.1038/bjc.1991.100.

c-erbB-2 protein overexpression in breast cancer is a risk factor in patients with involved and uninvolved lymph nodes

W J Gullick  1 , S B Love, C Wright, D M Barnes, B Gusterson, A L Harris, D G Altman
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c-erbB-2 protein overexpression in breast cancer is a risk factor in patients with involved and uninvolved lymph nodes

W J Gullick et al. Br J Cancer. 1991 Mar.
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Abstract

The c-erbB-2 gene is overexpressed in about 20% of human breast cancers. Four hundred and eighty-three cases previously examined by immunohistochemical staining for c-erbB-2 expression were analysed to assess the risk associated with the elevated protein expression. Oncoprotein expression was correlated with increasing tumour grade but not with oestrogen receptor status, nodal involvement, tumour size or age. There was an increased risk of relapse and death associated with c-erbB-2 expression irrespective of nodal involvement. This marker thus appears to be a significant prognostic factor in the early as well as the late stages of breast cancer.

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