[Tissue CEA as a prognostic factor in advanced and recurrent breast cancers].
We stained tissue CEA in specimens of 25 advanced and reccurrenced breast cancers using the PAP method. We concluded the following: Tissue CEA positivity was 56.0% (14 out of 25 cases). Tissue CEA positivity was not correlated with age, clinical stage or histological type of primary breast cancer. Tissue CEA-positive breast cancers tended to have multiple distant metastases and very poor prognoses as opposed to negative ones.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000276:immunology; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000276:immunology*; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors
D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen