Regional Variability in Percentage of Breast Cancers Reported as Positive for HER2 in California: Implications of Patient Demographics on Laboratory Benchmarks.

Conclusions: These results deepen our understanding of population characteristics' influence on the distribution of HER2-positive breast cancers. Taking these factors into account can be useful when setting laboratory benchmarks and assessing test quality.
PMID: 28821197 [PubMed - in process]

Source: American Journal of Clinical Pathology - August 20, 2017 Category: Pathology Authors: Lin CY, Carneal EE, Lichtensztajn DY, Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Jensen KC, Kurian AW, Allison KH Tags: Am J Clin Pathol Source Type: research