Gaëtan MacGrogan, the leading breast pathologist has performed part of his training in the USA, he is coauthor of several chapters of two last editions of WHO classification of breast tumors, he organizes breast pathology courses for the French division of the International Academy of pathology, he his author or co-author of more than 120 references in Pubmed.

Institute Bergonié’s biopathology department is ISO15189 certified and has all the diagnostic facilities of the 21st century including a modern surgical pathology laboratory and a molecular biology laboratory. All modern day techniques are performed including H&E staining, immunohistochemistry (more than 120 antibody references), FISH, RT-PCR, arrayCGH, Sanger sequencing, NGS

Institute Bergonié is the referral center for breast cancer of the southwest of France. Breast pathology has been one of the major specialties in this department for the past 30 years. The biopathology department issues more  than 2500 breast pathology reports per year.