Clinicopathologic and Demographic Evaluation of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients among a Turkish Patient Population: a Single Center Experience

Associations Between Mammography and Ultrasound Imaging Features and Molecular Characteristics of Triple-negative Breast Cancer

“…The reason might be due to the diversity of race, menopausal status or weight in different regions. (Sachdev et al, 2010;Li et al, 2013;Somali et al, 2013) Similar to other studies (Crook et al, 1997;Noguchi et al, 1999;Claus et al, 2005;Yang et al, 2008), DCIS was rare among our TNBCs lacking mammographic calcifications. As we all know, calcifications were regarded as the specific pictures of DCIS.…”

Triple Negative Breast Cancer in People of North East India: Critical Insights Gained at a Regional Cancer Centre

“…Comparing the histological subtypes, IDC NOS comprised maximum number of cases in both the study groups (95.8 vs 96%) followed by Medullary ca (3.2%) and rare subtypes like Metaplastic carcinoma(0.7%) and Large cell lymphoma (0.3%) in TNBC but in "Others" group next to IDCNOS , Invasive lobular ca (1.5%) predominated . Similar results were observed in other studies (Beatty et al 2006;Carey et al, 2006;Filho et al, 2006;Livsay et al, 2006;Somali et al, 2013).…”

“…In one published study in Turkey,no significant difference in age was found in both two groups (Ma et al, 2012). According to the literature patients with TNBC present with relatively larger size compared to other group (Bauer et al, 2007;Li et al, 2013;Somali et al, 2013). Consistent with these data,in the present study TNBC patients had larger tumor size compared to Other group , mean tumour size being 5.2 vs 3.4 cm .There are conflicting reports in literature regarding lymph node status in TNBC.…”

“…Consistent with these data,in the present study TNBC patients had larger tumor size compared to Other group , mean tumour size being 5.2 vs 3.4 cm .There are conflicting reports in literature regarding lymph node status in TNBC. While some publication report a higher rate of node positivity (Bauer et al, 2008;Li et al, 2013) some reports node negativity more common in TNBC (Foulkes et al, 2003;Cheang et al, 2008;Somali et al, 2013). In our study a high rate of node positivity was found in TNBC compared to Other group (55.8 vs 51%).…”

“…Our study comprised of 972 cases of invasive breast carcinoma and TNBC constituted 31.9% (310 cases) of total cases which shows a good burden of TN phenotype in this part of India (North-East) compared to other studies published from different parts of world, as presented in Table 3 (Ma et al, 2012;Li et al, 2013;Somali et al, 2013;Routa et al, 2013;Zubeda et al, 2013).…”