Prognostic Signatures in Breast Cancer

Prognostic signatures are also known as Gene Expression Profiles (GEP) are now commonly used in the clinic to stratify hormone positive breast cancer patients risk of distant recurrence at 10 years and aid treatment strategy decision making. In this blog post, I will review the commonly used GEP and hopefully illustrate their proper clinical utilization as well as limitations. In a previous post, I discussed the adjuvant endocrine therapy for hormone positive breast cancer, for details please click here.

The use of GEP in Early stage breast cancer signficantly reduced the use of Chemotherapy in this patient population.

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