Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer (original) (raw)

Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer

Veer, L.J. van 't; Dai, H.; Vijver, H. van de; He, Y.D.; Hart, A.A.M.; Mao, M.; Peterse, H.L.; Kooy, K. van der; Marton, M.J.; Witteveen, A.T.; Schreiber, G.J.; Kerkhoven, R.M.; Roberts, C.; Linsley, P.S.; Bernards, R.A.; Friend, S.H.

(2002) Nature, volume 415, issue 6871, pp. 530 - 536

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Abstract

Breast cancer patients with the same stage of disease can have markedly different treatment responses and overall outcome. The strongest predictors for metastases (for example, lymph node status and histological grade) fail to classify accurately breast tumours according to their clinical behaviour. Chemotherapy or hormonal therapy reduces the risk of distant metastases by approximately one-third; however, ... read more 70 — 80% of patients receiving this treatment would have survived without it. None of the signatures of breast cancer gene expression reported to date allow for patient-tailored therapy strategies. Here we used DNA microarray analysis on primary breast tumours of 117 young patients, and applied supervised classification to identify a gene expression signature strongly predictive of a short interval to distant metastases ('poor prognosis' signature) in patients without tumour cells in local lymph nodes at diagnosis (lymph node negative). In addition, we established a signature that identifies tumours of BRCAI carriers. The poor prognosis signature consists of genes regulating cell cycle, invasion, metastasis and angiogenesis. This gene expression profile will outperform all currently used clinical parameters in predicting disease outcome. Our findings provide a strategy to select patients who would benefit from adjuvant therapy. show less

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ISSN: 0028-0836

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group