BCL2 and breast carcinoma: Bcl-2 positivity has also been associated with longer disease-free survival [5–10, 60], longer overall survival [5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 49, 66–68], and lower risk of cancer-related death [14, 52, 69] in other reports, especially in luminal breast cancers [7, 12, 18].