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Figure 4 | Breast Cancer Research

Figure 4

From: Classification and risk stratification of invasive breast carcinomas using a real-time quantitative RT-PCR assay

Figure 4

Stratification of five 'intrinsic' subtypes by the proliferation meta-gene. A large microarray breast cancer data set (337 samples × 16,000 genes) from women with early-stage disease was used to confirm the significance of the proliferation meta-gene to further risk-stratify the Luminal tumors. Tumors were classified as Basal, HER2+/ER-, Luminal A, Luminal B, and Normal-like. The microarray data for the proliferation meta-gene was then used in a Cox regression model to determine probability of relapse in women with the different tumor subtypes. Differences in relapse for low (green), medium (red), and high (blue) expression are shown as tertiles in the Kaplan-Meier plots. The Kaplan-Meier curves show that proliferation adds significant survival information, beyond that gleaned from the intrinsic subtype, only for patients with Luminal A tumors (P = 0.012).

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