Immunohistochemical staining of leptin is associated with grade, stage, lymph node involvement, recurrence, and hormone receptor phenotypes in breast cancer

• Main Authors: Mohamad Nidal Khabaz (Author), Amer Abdelrahman (Author), Nadeem Butt (Author), Lila Damnhory (Author), Mohamed Elshal (Author), Alia M. Aldahlawi (Author), Swsan Ashoor (Author), Basim Al-Maghrabi (Author), Pauline Dobson (Author), Barry Brown (Author), Kaltoom Al-Sakkaf (Author), Mohmmad Al-Qahtani (Author), Jaudah Al-Maghrabi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Obesity is part of the established risk factors for breast cancer (BC) in postmenopausal females. Circulating leptin increases in parallel with the increase of body weight and fat reservoir. Methods This research investigated the link between leptin phenotype and the clinicopatho...