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Table 1 Clinicopathological features of breast cancer samples (n=144) from Eritrean patients

From: Association of Epstein - Barr virus and breast cancer in Eritrea

Feature

Value

Age (years)

 

 Mean

51.48

 Range

19-91

Histology

 

 Ductal

96 (66.66%)

 Lobular

2 (1.38%)

 Medullary

12 (8.33%)

 Others

34 (23.61%)

 Lymph node involvement

45 (31.25%)

  1. One hundred fourty-four formalin fixed paraffin- embedded (FFPE) tissue sections of breast carcinoma retrieved from the Department of Histopathology, National Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Eritrea. The age of the patients ranged from 19 to 91 years with a mean age of 51.48 years. The constitution of the types was: duct carcinoma 66.66% (96/144), lobular carcinoma 1.38% (2/144), medullary 8.33% (12/144) and others 23.61% (34/144). Lymph node was involved in 31.25% (45/144)
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Infectious Agents and Cancer

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