“…The prognostic and predictive value of p53 expression in axillary lymph node metastasis in patients with breast carcinoma needs to be further evaluated in larger trials with longer follow-up (Arun et al, 2003). A number of studies reported that the expression of p53 had direct correlation with tumor size (Osanai et al, 2005), histological grade (Qing et al, 2014;Osanai et al, 2005;Sirvent et al, 1995;Bertheau et al, 1998), nuclear grade (Jasar et al, 2015, lymph-vascular invasion (Osanai et al, 2005), the proliferation index Ki67 (Jasar et al, 2015) and ER status (Osanai et al, 2005;Li et al, 2015), but other studies showed that the expression of p53 had inverse correlation with histological grade (el-A Helal et al, 2000), lymph-vascular invasion (Jasar et al, 2015), non-sentinel lymph node invasion (Vernet et al, 2015) and estrogen (Sirvent et al, 1995) and progesterone receptors (Sirvent et al, 1995;Bertheau et al, 1998). Also, a number of studies reported that there was no significant correlation between the expression of p53 and age (Qing et al, 2014), clinical stage (Qing et al, 2014), or lymph node metastasis (Sirvent et al, 1995;Sjostrom-Mattson et al, 2009;Qing et al, 2014) in the BC.…”