New classification system for breast cancers

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Breast cancer tumors have long been classified according to their expression of three surface proteins: estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2).These classifications are used to determine best treatments and prognoses, but are not adequate to describe tumor characteristics or compare them to normal breast tissue.

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