Fig. 5
From: Local iron homeostasis in the breast ductal carcinoma microenvironment
Breast cancer tissue presents a higher accumulation of iron than normal breast. a Percentage of normal and breast cancer samples presenting hemosiderin deposits in epithelial and stromal inflammatory cells; b-c Representative images of Perls’ iron staining of a normal (b) and DCIS (c) sample, showing pronounced deposition of hemosiderin in stromal inflammatory cells (arrows) and to a lesser extent in ductal epithelial cells (asterisk) (Original magnification × 200, ×400)