Research Article

Clinical Significance of Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes and Ki67 Expression as a Predictive Value for Pathological Complete Response following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon

Table 1

Molecular breast cancer subtypes based on St. Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2011.

Intrinsic subtypeClinicopathologic interpretation
ER and/or PgRHER2Ki67 expression

Lumina A typePositiveNegative≤14%
Luminal B typePositiveNegative≥ 14%
Luminal B HER2 typePositivePositive≤14% or ≥ 14%
HER2 overexpression typeNegativePositive≤14% or ≥ 14%
Triple negative typeNegativeNegative≤14% or ≥ 14%