Research Article

A Comparative Analysis of Biomarker Expression and Molecular Subtypes of Pure Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Invasive Breast Carcinoma by Image Analysis: Relationship of the Subtypes with Histologic Grade, Ki67, p53 Overexpression, and DNA Ploidy

Table 5

The prevalence of the molecular subtypes in pDCIS versus IBCA by IHC.

Molecular subtypesPure DCIS IBCA 𝑃 value

Luminal-A44 (37.3%)21 (21%)0.0113
Luminal-B31 (26.3%)30 (30%)0.5490
HER2*36 (31%)23 (23%)0.2252
Triple negative7 (6%)26 (26%)<0.0001

Total118100

*Luminal-HER2 and HER2 subtypes are combined together as one group.