The positive prognostic power of BCL-2 overexpression may be also related to its correlation with other favourable prognostic markers such as lower tumour grade, oestrogen and progesterone positivity, cytokeratin negativity, lack of HER2 overexpression, which was shown in our study and is in agreement with other authors (van Slooten et al. 1996; Mottolese et al. 2000; Yang et al. 2003; Lee et al. 2007; Kim et al. 2010). Here, BCL2 is linked to neoplasm.