Can invasive lobular cancer be triple negative?

Topics: Medical Oncology

IHC has been repeated and confirms triple negative disease.

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice

The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that it is very unusual and should trigger a re-review to make sure that the findings are correct. In a SEER database analysis of ILC vs. IDC that included 85,048 ILC cases and 711, 287 IDC cases, only 4.1% of the ILC cases we...

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