Metaplastic breast carcinoma: more than a special type

Britta Weigelt; Carey Eberle; Catherine F Cowell; Charlotte K Y Ng; Jorge S Reis-Filho

doi:10.1038/nrc3637

Metaplastic breast carcinoma: more than a special type

Nat Rev Cancer. 2014 Mar;14(3):147-8. doi: 10.1038/nrc3637.

Authors

Britta Weigelt¹, Carey Eberle¹, Catherine F Cowell¹, Charlotte K Y Ng¹, Jorge S Reis-Filho²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA. reisfilj@mskcc.org

PMID: 25688406
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3637

Abstract

Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a special histological type of invasive breast cancer. MBC is a descriptive and operational term for a heterogeneous collection of tumours with distinct histologies, clinical behaviours and potentially responses to therapy.

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / genetics
Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
Female
Humans
Metaplasia*
Mutation
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Phenotype