Patent ID: 7171311
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: C12Q

Abstract:
1. A method of assigning treatment to a breast cancer patient, wherein said breast cancer patient is a human breast cancer patient, comprising: (a) classifying said breast cancer patient as having a prognosis selected from the group consisting of a first prognosis, a second prognosis, and a third prognosis on the basis of a first expression profile comprising the nucleic acid levels of expression of at least five genes listed in Table 5 in a clinically relevant cell sample from said breast cancer patient by a method comprising (b) assigning said breast cancer patient a treatment without adjuvant chemotherapy if the breast cancer patient is lymph node negative and is classified as having said first prognosis or said second prognosis, or assigning said breast cancer patient a treatment with adjuvant chemotherapy if said breast cancer patient (b1) is lymph node positive and is classified as having said first prognosis, said second prognosis, or said third prognosis, or (b2) is lymph node negative and is classified as having said third prognosis.