Mammastrats

I am doing mammaprint on all patients with tumor 1cm or greater.

Mammaprint is a 70 gene assay that can be used determine if a breast cancer is high risk or low risk for recurrence. Additionally it allows for tumor subtyping so that we can know if the tumor is luminal, basal or her2neu over-expressing. This can be very helpful for helping patients make decisions about the potential benefit of chemotherapy as well as helping to decide which medications are most effective. This assay can only be done on fresh tumor tissue either obtained at the time of core biopsy or during surgery. I am doing mammaprint on all patients with tumor 1cm or greater.

Mammaprint is a 70 gene assay that can be used determine if a breast cancer is high risk or low risk for recurrence. Additionally it allows for tumor subtyping so that we can know if the tumor is luminal, basal or her2neu over-expressing. This can be very helpful for helping patients make decisions about the potential benefit of chemotherapy as well as helping to decide which medications are most effective. This assay can only be done on fresh tumor tissue either obtained at the time of core biopsy or during surgery.