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Can invasive lobular cancer be triple negative?
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Medical Oncology · Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
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 were both ER- and PR-negative....