Updated NCCN guides stress advantage of Genomic Health Oncotype DX test

Genomic Health announced that its Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score test has been categorized as the only “preferred” test for chemotherapy treatment decision-making for patients with node-negative early-stage breast cancer by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network,NCCN, in its 2018 guidelines for invasive breast cancer chemotherapy treatment. The only test elevated to “strongly consider” guideline inclusion with level 1 evidence, Oncotype DX continues to be distinguished as the only genomic test predictive of chemotherapy benefit. NCCN’s guidelines update follows the recent publication of results of Trial Assigning IndividuaLized Options for Treatment , or TAILORx, led by ECOG-ACRIN Research Group. The largest adjuvant treatment breast cancer trial to date, TAILORx involved 10,273 women across 1,100 trial sites in six participating countries. The study results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrated that the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score test definitively identifies the vast majority of women with early-stage breast cancer who receive no benefit from chemotherapy, and the important minority of women for whom chemotherapy benefit can be life-saving. Additionally, the NCCN guidelines elevated Oncotype DX into the algorithm for chemotherapy treatment of patients with micrometastases and one to three positive lymph nodes.
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