It is fairly well accepted that the presence of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR) identifies breast cancer patients with a lower risk of relapse and better overall survival.
By performing both hormone- and DNA-binding assays of ER and the hormone-binding assay of progesterone receptor (PR), we found the following subgroups of breast cancer: (a) E2+/ERE+/PR+, (b) E2+/ERE+/PR-, (c) E2+/ERE-/PR+, (d) E2+/ERE-/PR-, (e) E2-/ERE+/PR+, (f) E2-/ERE+/PR-, (g) E2-/ERE-/PR-.
Progesterone receptor-containing T47D human breast cancer cells are responsive to progestins but fail to respond to other steroid hormones, in particular dexamethasone, because they have no measurable levels of receptors for estrogens, androgens, or glucocorticoids.
Sixteen human breast carcinomas were subjected to molecular biological and biochemical analyses to determine tumor cell MDR-1 (P-glycoprotein) levels and progesterone receptor content.
A lambda gt10 library containing DNAs complementary to messenger RNAs from human breast cancer T47-D cells was constructed and screened with a cDNA probe encoding the rabbit progesterone receptor.
Diagnosis of BC was made for all patients on surgical mastectomy specimens; histologic grading, estrogen (ER) and progesterone (PgR) receptors were determined on all primary tumors.
Under normal culturing conditions, the T47D human breast cancer cell line expresses progesterone receptor constitutively and is responsive to estrogen.
Integrated information from the quantitative analysis in tumour tissue of biological parameters such as oestrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PGR), proliferative activity, and proto-oncogene p53, c-erB2, and bcl-2 expression, may be useful for defining the biology of growth of breast carcinoma and to plan effective therapeutic strategies.
Exon 5 deletion variant estrogen receptor messenger RNA expression in relation to tamoxifen resistance and progesterone receptor/pS2 status in human breast cancer.
Tumor size, axillary lymph nodal status, SPF-LI, nuclear size, and ER all related strongly to breast cancer specific survival and relapse free survival.PgR was less effective.
The biological features of tumour type, histological grade, vascular invasion, mitotic index, DNA index, and oestrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PgR) status have been investigated as prognostic factors in primary operable breast cancer.
This study was designed to determine the frequency of p53 gene mutations in primary breast cancer, to correlate the presence of p53 mutations with established clinicopathologic parameters, including the estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status, and to assess the prognostic significance of p53 mutations regarding patient survival.
The biologic profile of 907 infiltrating breast carcinomas was determined considering estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR), proliferation index (PI) and c-erbB-2/Neu expression.
The small numbers of cases in some categories and the corresponding wide CIs preclude definitive conclusions, but these data are at least suggestive that joint stratification of breast tumors on ER and PR status may be useful in partitioning breast cancer families into more homogeneous subsets.