Breast carcinomas with isolated bone metastases have different hormone receptor expression profiles than those with metastases to other sites or multiple organs
Shi Wei, Yufeng Li, Gene P. Siegal, Omar Hameed
20110301
2011 Apr 1
Ann Diagn Pathol
Breast carcinomas with isolated bone metastases have different hormone receptor expression profiles than those with metastases to other sites or multiple organs
Ann Diagn Pathol. 2011 Apr;15(2):79-83, Shi Wei, Yufeng Li, Gene P. Siegal, Omar Hameed
Breast carcinoma (BC) is one of the most common osteotropic tumors. The subset of BC patients with isolated bone metastasis (IBM) forms a clinically distinct group and often has a favorable clinical outcome as compared to others with metastatic BC. We analyzed all BC patients with distal organ metastasis in our institution between 1997 and 2003 (N = 198) to identify the clinicopathologic features of BC with IBM and compare them to those with metastasis to other sites. We found that 63% of BC patients...
