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SUBMITTER: Baretta Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4375038 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baretta Zora Z Olopade Olufunmilayo I OI Huo Dezheng D
Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) 20141218 2
To examine whether discordance in the hormone-receptor status predicts clinical outcomes in patients with bilateral synchronous (SBC) or metachronous breast cancer (MBC), we analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program (1998-2011) using Cox models. After excluding 10,231 patients with missing data on hormone receptors in at least one tumor, 4403 SBC and 7159 MBC were included in the study. Among SBC cases, patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-discordant tumors had h ...[more]