Prognostic and Predictive Factors for Breast Cancer.
Prognostic factors can be useful for making decisions about which patients should receive adjuvant therapy, and predictive factors can be used to predict response or lack of response to a particular therapy. We review the standard factors that are available today for primary breast cancer, and we dscribe some of the new, potential prognostic and predictive factors that are currently under investigation.
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Division of Medical Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7884, USA.