Dr. Steven Shak on the Results of the TAILORx Trial for Breast Cancer
Shak says the study examined the prospective outcomes of 1626 women and showed that at 5 years, less than 1% of women had a distant recurrence.
Steven Shak, MD, chief Scientific Officer, Oncotype Dx, discusses the good news for patients with breast cancer emerging from the NCI-sponsored Trial Assigning Individualized Options for Treatment (Rx), or TAILORx, trial.
The goal of the trial was to examine the effects of chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer who had a midrange recurrent score from 12 to 25. The analysis includes additional single gene results from patients with recurrence scores less than 11 who received hormonal therapy alone.
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