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. 2014 Mar;14(3):147-8.
doi: 10.1038/nrc3637.

Metaplastic breast carcinoma: more than a special type

Britta Weigelt  1 , Carey Eberle  1 , Catherine F Cowell  1 , Charlotte K Y Ng  1 , Jorge S Reis-Filho  2
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Metaplastic breast carcinoma: more than a special type

Britta Weigelt et al. Nat Rev Cancer. 2014 Mar.

Abstract

Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a special histological type of invasive breast cancer. MBC is a descriptive and operational term for a heterogeneous collection of tumours with distinct histologies, clinical behaviours and potentially responses to therapy.

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