Implication of an Immune Score in Molecular Subtypes and Distant Metastasis of Breast Cancer: Comparison between Western and Chinese Han Patients

Seventy-one breast cancer patients with stages II and III breast cancer were included. They received four preoperative cycles of a weekly PCb (paclitaxel plus carboplatin) regimen. The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive value of the ER pathway for a response to chemotherapy using a gene microarray method. In addition, this study aimed to identify novel ER-related genes, which, combined with ER levels, would provide a robust multi-variable prediction of patient outcome to chemotherapy.

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