Race, Breast Cancer Subtypes, and Survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study

Gene expression analysis has identified several breast cancer subtypes, including basal-like, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 positive/estrogen receptor negative (HER2+/ER-), luminal A, and luminal B.To determine population-based distributions and clinical associations for breast cancer subtypes.Immunohistochemical surrogates for each subtype were applied to 496 incident cases of invasive breast cancer from the Carolina Breast Cancer...