How will a gene expression profile test benefit me?
A gene expression profile test will give you the most accurate diagnosis and predict, with a high level of certainty, the prognosis of your disease. Breast cancer is clearly a genomic disease involving many genes. The ability to measure how specific genes are reacting in cells that are multiplying out of control is crucial in understanding and treating the disease. Physicians’ work with the tools that are available to them and, until now, a microscope and genetic tests that only look at one or a few genes were all they had. The ability to look at the expression patterns of all the genes scientists have determined are involved in breast cancer gives physicians the necessary molecular view of the disease. Until Iris BioTechnology’s technological breakthrough in clinical expression profiling, there were no comprehensive tests available for all women with breast cancer.
