EGFR and scirrhous adenocarcinoma: A higher proportion of solid-tubular carcinoma in tumors of a basal-like subtype is also consistent with results by Tsuda et al., who found EGFR positivity in solid-tubular carcinoma to be 17% - much higher than that in scirrhous carcinoma (6%) and papilla-tubular carcinoma (3%) [14].