ERBB2 and neoplasm: PABC is generally believed to exhibit particularly aggressive behavior and its poor outcome is largely attributed to unfavorable tumor characteristics: advanced tumor (T) stage at diagnosis, lymph node involvement, high histologic grade, negative estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status, and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2) amplification and overexpression [13, 14, 17, 18].