Abstract:Background: The American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists (ASCO/CAP) published, in Nov/2013, the interpretive guidelines for HER2 testing of breast cancer patients. This aimed to improve the accuracy of HER2 testing and its utility as a predictive marker in invasive breast cancer. The former version of these criteria was written in 2007. Objectives: to compare the HER2 immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis using the 2007 versus 2013 algorithms in a cohort of breast cancer cases diagno… Show more
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