Hormonal receptors in mammary carcinoma: comparison between quantitative and qualitative methods
São Paulo med. j
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115(4): 1471-4, jul.-ago. 1997. tab
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RESUMO
Alternatives to the traditional hormone receptor dosages for prognostic evaluation and clinical approach to breast cancer have been proposed for immunohistochemical determinations. For correlation purposes, such procedures were compared in 37 patients presenting 5 to 15 years of survival. Considering 30 fm/mg as the positivity index, the disagreement between both methods reached 35.1 percent with estrogen and 48.5 percent with progesterone receptors. When the positiveness level was changed to 20 fm/mg, the discrepancies were reduced to 32 percent with ER and increased to 57 percent with PgR. This study leads us to not recommend the immunohistochemical method applied to paraffin sections as an alternative procedure to the dextran-charcoal dosage for prognosis and therapeutic management of mammary carcinoma.
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Mama
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Imuno-Histoquímica
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Receptores de Progesterona
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Receptores de Estrogênio
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo prognóstico
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Pesquisa qualitativa
Limite:
Adulto
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Feminino
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Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
São Paulo med. j
Assunto da revista:
Cirurgia Geral
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Cincia
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Ginecologia
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Medicina
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Medicina Interna
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Obstetr¡cia
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Pediatria
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Sa£de Mental
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Sa£de P£blica
Ano de publicação:
1997
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