“…The Severance breast cancer registry is a prospectively maintained database, described previously. 7 In brief, the database includes information on the sex, age at the time of the diagnosis of stage IV breast cancer, T stage, nodal status, estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR) status, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2/neu (HER2) amplification, tumor grade, and tumor subtype. Tumor subtype is categorized into four subtypes based on immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of tumor samples: luminal A (ER + and PR+, HER2â), luminal B (ER+ and/or PR+, HER2+), HER2 over-expression (ERâ, PRâ, HER2+), and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC; ERâ, PRâ, HER2â).…”