TY - JOUR
T1 - Receptor heterogeneity of human breast cancer as measured by multiple intratumoral assays of estrogen and progesterone receptor
AU - Davis, Ben W.
AU - Zava, David T.
AU - Locher, Gottfried W.
AU - Goldhirsch, Aron
AU - Hartmann, William H.
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - Multiple intratumoral tissue samples from the primary mass of 30 consecutive invasive breast cancer patients were assayed for estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) by the dextran-coated charcoal method following frozen section histopathological examination. Steroid receptor status of each sample was classified as positive (R+) or negative (R-), based only upon quantitative guide lines form the ER/PR results. Four out of 32 (12.5%) of the invasive cancers had an intratumoral sample classified as R+ and one sample as R-. R+ invasive ductal carcinomas has a highly significant degree of tubule formation (P = 0.005) when compared with R- invasive ductal cancers. While the quantitative ER content (r = 0.18) and the degree of quantitative variation in ER content (P = 0.04) did not correlate with the tumor cellularity of the individual samples, tumor cellularity (P = 0.005) and ER content (P = 0.005) were lower in the samples from the tumor border than from the central tumor samples. Variations in ER and PR content may be found on a regional basis within a breast tumor mass resulting from heterogeneity of tumor subpopulations and/or differences in tumor cellularity.
AB - Multiple intratumoral tissue samples from the primary mass of 30 consecutive invasive breast cancer patients were assayed for estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) by the dextran-coated charcoal method following frozen section histopathological examination. Steroid receptor status of each sample was classified as positive (R+) or negative (R-), based only upon quantitative guide lines form the ER/PR results. Four out of 32 (12.5%) of the invasive cancers had an intratumoral sample classified as R+ and one sample as R-. R+ invasive ductal carcinomas has a highly significant degree of tubule formation (P = 0.005) when compared with R- invasive ductal cancers. While the quantitative ER content (r = 0.18) and the degree of quantitative variation in ER content (P = 0.04) did not correlate with the tumor cellularity of the individual samples, tumor cellularity (P = 0.005) and ER content (P = 0.005) were lower in the samples from the tumor border than from the central tumor samples. Variations in ER and PR content may be found on a regional basis within a breast tumor mass resulting from heterogeneity of tumor subpopulations and/or differences in tumor cellularity.
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U2 - 10.1016/0277-5379(84)90084-1
DO - 10.1016/0277-5379(84)90084-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 6323188
AN - SCOPUS:0021338967
VL - 20
SP - 375
EP - 382
JO - European Journal of Cancer
JF - European Journal of Cancer
SN - 0959-8049
IS - 3
ER -