In a report from the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, patients with grade III tumors showed a higher proportion of non-classical subtypes and significantly worse prognosis for overall and disease-free survival, in comparison with patients with grade I/II carcinomas.12 In another report, histological grading was correlated with other factors for poor prognosis, such as increasing tumor size, positive lymph nodes, vascular invasion and estrogen receptor negativity. This evidence concerns the gene ESR1 and carcinoma.