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SUBMITTER: Tonetti DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3299310 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tonetti Debra A DA Gao Weihua W Escarzaga Diana D Walters Kelly K Szafran April A Coon John S JS
International journal of breast cancer 20120226
Although the incidence of breast cancer in the United States is higher in Caucasian women compared with African American women, African-American patients have more aggressive disease as characterized by a higher percentage of triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs), high-grade tumors, and a higher mortality rate. PKCα is a biomarker associated with endocrine resistance and poor prognosis and ERβ is emerging as a protective biomarker. Immunohistochemical analysis of ERβ and PKCα expression was per ...[more]