Establishment and Fractionation of Metastatic Axillary Lymph Node Cell Suspension for Determination of Protein Expression Levels of Nuclear cFOS and Cytosolic TGFβ1 from Breast Cancer Patients

Table 1 Clinical and pathohistological characteristics of BC patients from whom metastatic ALNs were dissected

^aGrading scale used to evaluate ER and PR ranged from 0 to 8. The cut-off value was 3, above which the markers were considered positive as proposed previously²⁰
^bAssessment of histological grade of primary breast tumor was based on Scarff-Bloom-Richardson system (I-III)
^cPatients were staged according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 6th edition staging manual [23]
^dMetastasis observed in 3 out of 8 ALNs
^elarge primary tumor, “d”, with malignant infiltration of surrounding skin
^fpni+, malignant infiltration of perinodal adipose tissue
^gTU1 and TU2 signify two primary tumor lesions diagnozed simultaneously on the same breast of the indicated BC patient

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