Who Needs Chemotherapy after Breast Cancer Surgery?

The benefit of chemotherapy among women with early-stage, hormone-receptor positive breast cancers has become largely determinant on the use of gene expression profiles, including Oncotype DX, MammaPrint, and PAM50. Oncotype DX score is a 21-gene assay that uses RT-PCR to calculate recurrence risk using a scoring system from 0 to 100, and categorizes women into low, intermediate, and high risk of recurrence based on pre-specified cut points. MammaPrint is a 70-gene assay performed with microarray, and classifies tumors as having good vs poor prognostic signatures. PAM50 tests 50 classifier genes and categorizes women by intrinsic subtypes including luminal A, luminal B, HER2-enriched, basal-like and normal-like. Adjuvant! Online is an online program that uses standard clinicopathologic variables to estimate survival for breast cancer patients treated by local therapy alone and the survival and disease-free survival benefit gained by the addition of systemic adjuvant therapy.

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