PGR and neoplasm: Most patients had stage IIA, IIB, and IIIA, 67.6% had positive expression of Ki67 and had a significant correlation with the tumor grade, tumor necrosis, and ER expression (P values 0.001, 0.047, and 0.002) respectively, while the correlation was negative with recurrence, axillary LN involvement, TNM stage, site of the tumor, age, tumor size, PR and HER-2 receptor (P values 0.476, 0.971, 0.509, 0.405, 0.122, 0.994, 0.892, and 0.418) respectively.