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Table 1 Clinicopathological Subtypes and Clinical Decision-Making [Ref [5]

From: Prediction of the clinicopathological subtypes of breast cancer using a fisher discriminant analysis model based on radiomic features of diffusion-weighted MRI

Clinicopathological Subtype

IHC status

Clinical Decision-Making

Luminal A

ER and/or PR positive

HER2 negative

Ki-67 low (< 14%)

Endocrine therapy

aLuminal BHER2-

ER and/or PR positive

HER2 negative

Ki-67 high

Endocrine±cytotoxic therapy

bLuminal BHER2+

ER and/or PR positive

any Ki-67

HER2 over-expressed

Cytotoxics + anti-HER2 + endocrine therapy

HER2 positive

HER2 over-expressed

Cytotoxics + anti-HER2

Triple negative

ER and PR absent

HER2 negative

Cytotoxics

  1. aLuminal BHER2- luminal B/HER2 negative, bLuminal BHER2+ luminal B/HER2 positive, IHC immunohistochemistry