In the inflammatory subgroup none of the traditional prognostic variables were associated with patient survival including patient age, histological grade, tumour size, lymph node status and ER, PgR or HER2 receptor status (with individual Kaplan-Meier statistics of P=0.450, P=0.188, P=0.709, P=0.239, P=0.814, P=0.194 and P=0.953 respectively). This evidence concerns the gene PGR and neoplasm.