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02 2018 Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology

The Genomic Grade Index predicts postoperative clinical outcome in patients with soft-tissue sarcoma.

Authors

Bertucci F, De Nonneville A, Finetti P, Perrot D, Nilbert M, Italiano A, Le Cesne A, Skubitz KM, Blay JY, Birnbaum D

Summary

Soft-tissue sarcomas (STSs) are a group of rare, heterogeneous, and aggressive tumors, with high metastatic risk and relatively few efficient systemic therapies. We hypothesized that the Genomic Grade Index (GGI), a 108-gene signature previously developed in early-stage breast cancer, might improve the prognostic assessment of patients with early-stage STS.

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