Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA.
Clin Cancer Res. 2010 Dec 15;16(24):5920-2. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-2541.
A better understanding of breast cancer subtypes is allowing their use as prognostic markers. For some time, it has been documented that black women with breast cancer have a poorer prognosis than white women of the same stage. Advances in immunohistochemistry and the appreciation of breast cancer subtypes are enabling investigators to study the distribution of these subtypes among populations.
对乳腺癌亚型的更好理解使其成为了预后标志物。长期以来,有记录表明,患有乳腺癌的黑人女性比处于同一阶段的白人女性预后更差。免疫组织化学的进步和对乳腺癌亚型的认识使研究人员能够研究这些亚型在人群中的分布。