Human breast cancer: Heterogeneity of estrogen binding sites
- 15 October 1981
- Vol. 48 (8), 1791-1793
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(19811015)48:8<1791::aid-cncr2820480816>3.0.co;2-y
Abstract
A patient who had two primary tumors in the same breast is described. Both tumors were infiltrating duct carcinomas, but they differed as far as histologic malignancy and estrogen-receptor-positivity are concerned. One tumor was estrogen-receptor-positive the other was estrogen-receptor-negative. The case illustrates the multicentric origin of breast cancer as well as its cellular heterogeneity. Problems of treatment are discussed.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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