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Editorial
. 2014 Apr 28;106(5):dju093.
doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju093.

Tracking and evaluating molecular tumor markers with cancer registry data: HER2 and breast cancer

William F Anderson  1 , Philip S Rosenberg  1 , Hormuzd A Katki  2
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Editorial

Tracking and evaluating molecular tumor markers with cancer registry data: HER2 and breast cancer

William F Anderson et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. .
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Figure 1.
Frequency distribution of the four intrinsic breast cancer subtypes in the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 17 Registries database, covering approximately 28% of the US population. The four mutually exclusive molecular subtypes are defined by the joint positive or negative expression of the hormone receptors (HR±) and human epidermal growth factor 2 receptor (HER2±). Seventy-three percent of the breast cancers were luminal A (HR+/HER2−), 10% were luminal B (HR+/HER2+), 5% were HER2-enriched (HER2E; HR−/HER2+), and 12% were triple-negative (HR−/HER2−).
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