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Friday, March 05, 2010

The clinicopathological characteristics of ‘triple-negative’ epithelial ovarian cancer -- JCO (China)





Note: other cell types of ovarian cancer were also compared in this study

"Conclusions: A novel (new) subtype of ovarian carcinoma, which is negative for ER, PR and HER2 expression, has been identified; this specific ovarian subtype tends to have aggressive characteristics and a poor prognosis, which is similar to triple-negative breast cancer in most respects. TNEOC should be considered in future investigations of informative classification of ovarian cancer."