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The Oncotype DX test provides significant value in clinical practice

For node-positive, early breast cancer patients

The Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score result is predictive of chemotherapy benefit for your postmenopausal patients with HR+, HER2-, node-positive (1-3 positive nodes), early-stage, invasive breast cancer as demonstrated by SWOG-8814.1 Data from SWOG-8814 and RxPONDER show that a substantial proportion of these patients may be spared chemotherapy.6

 

CT benefit expressed in percentage points based on probability of distant recurrence with/without CT at 5 years. No CT benefit is considered for an absolute benefit <1%.
*Benefit of chemotherapy for premenopausal N1 patients with RS® results 26-100 has not been formally assessed in a randomised study. The benefit derived from chemotherapy was significant for RS® results 0-13 and 14-25 in the RxPONDER study and it is inferred to be substantial for patients with RS® 26-100.

Use of the Oncotype DX test may reduce the risk of overtreatment with chemotherapy1,6

A large proportion7-8 of HR+, HER2-, node-positive postmenopausal patients receive chemotherapy as N1 disease is considered high clinical risk due to worse prognosis9. Average chemotherapy treatment rates without genomic testing are in the range of 70% for this patient population7-8. RxPONDER demonstrated that many of these patients may be overtreated6, and the Oncotype DX test can help make informed treatment decisions.

 

 

N1

Nodal status, despite being of prognostic value, does not predict the Recurrence Score result and the underlying tumour biology4

 

Overall, 566,438 tumour specimens with known nodal status were examined by the Genomic Health laboratory (now Exact Sciences) from February 2004 to August 20174

CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE ONCOTYPE DX ASSAY

In summary, adjuvant chemotherapy may be guided with the Oncotype DX test to identify a significant proportion of node-positive patients (with up to 3 positive nodes) who may not benefit from the addition of chemotherapy.1,6

 

READ MORE ON CLINICAL EVIDENCE IN NODE-POSITIVE PATIENTS

 

The Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score* test should be used for:

  • All patients for whom chemotherapy can potentially be spared1,6
  • All patients for whom chemotherapy can potentially be life-saving1,6
*For early stage, HR+, HER2- patients with up to 3 nodes involved


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