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A 53-year-old waitress inquiries about the implications of positive estrogen receptors (ER+) in an invasive carcinoma that is excised from her left breast.She should be informed of what?

AThey are more often positive in patients under 50 years of age.
BIf the receptors are positive, antiestrogen therapy is not indicated.
CIf the receptors are positive, the prognosis is more unfavorable.
DER and progesterone receptor (PR) status should be determined in all cases of breast carcinoma.
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