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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 142, 669-674, Copyright © 1993 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Nuclear p53 protein accumulates preferentially in medullary and high- grade ductal but rarely in lobular breast carcinomas

W Domagala, B Harezga, A Szadowska, M Markiewski, K Weber and M Osborn
Department of Tumor Pathology, Medical Academy, Szczecin, Poland.

Striking differences were found between different histological types of breast cancer when 263 invasive breast carcinomas were tested for nuclear p53 accumulation in formaldehyde-fixed paraffin sections. Nuclear p53 accumulation was found in > 10% of tumor cells in 61% of medullary carcinomas (22/36), 37% of grade 3 ductal not otherwise specified carcinomas (32/86), 4% of lobular carcinomas (2/47), and 0% (0/7) of mucinous carcinomas. Strong cytoplasmic p53 staining was noted in 32% of lobular carcinomas. High percentages of medullary and high- grade ductal breast carcinomas accumulate nuclear p53, but these tumors have favorable and poor prognoses, respectively. Thus, whereas nuclear p53 accumulation can be associated in these tumors with high morphological malignancy grades in general and with tumor cell proliferation in particular, p53 accumulation is not necessarily correlated with biological aggressiveness. Overall incidence of p53- positive tumors in a particular series of breast carcinomas (in our study 28%) will depend on the ratio of ductal not otherwise specified, medullary, and lobular carcinomas.

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