Brief fixation enables same-day breast cancer diagnosis with reliable assessment of hormone receptors, E-cadherin and HER2/Neu.
Altuna HalilovicJoris BulteYvonne JacobsHanneke BraamPatricia van CleefMargrethe Schlooz-VriesAnnelies WernerOliver BoelensIris D NagtegaalHans de WiltPeter BultPublished in: Journal of clinical pathology (2017)
Hormone receptors and E-cadherin IHC and HER2 FISH are highly comparable between briefly fixed CNBs and the corresponding traditionally fixed resection specimens, and can therefore reliably be used in the daily clinical practice of same-day diagnostics of breast cancer.