CPC C12Q 1/6886 (2013.01) [A61K 31/337 (2013.01); A61K 31/513 (2013.01); A61K 31/675 (2013.01); A61K 31/704 (2013.01); A61K 45/06 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/106 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/118 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/158 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method of treating breast cancer of a subject who is lymph node-positive, the method comprising
(i) determining that the subject has an MGIN+ score above an MGIN+ score cut point by:
assaying or having assayed a sample of breast cancer cells from the subject for the expression levels of BUB1B, CENPA, NEK2, RACGAP1 and RRM2;
summing or having summed the expression levels of BUB1B, CENPA, NEK2, RACGAP1 and RRM2 as a single index into a subject's MGI index;
determining or having determined one or more clinicopathological factor selected from tumor size and grade of the subject's breast cancer;
calculating or having calculated the MGIN+ score of the subject by combining the subject's MGI index with the one or more clinicopathological factor of the subject using a multivariate Cox-proportional model;
comparing or having compared the subject's MGIN+ score to the MGIN+ score cut point, wherein the MGIN+ score cut point has been pre-determined based on the MGIN+ scores calculated for a training set of samples containing breast cancer tissues from patients who had breast cancer recurrence and patients who did not have breast cancer recurrence; and
(ii) treating the subject with an MGIN+ score above the MGIN+ cut point with chemotherapy or endocrine therapy.
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