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SUBMITTER: Wu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5412726 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of cancer research and molecular mechanisms 20161006 1
Clinical studies have shown that the androgen receptor (AR) is ubiquitously expressed in breast cancers and this could provide prognostic implication in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancers. Data from Nurse's Health Study on women with invasive breast cancer suggest that a significant number of tumors were AR-positive as defined by immunohistochemistry. In addition, the distribution of AR among different breast cancer subtypes varies significantly, and the biological reasons for this va ...[more]