We are proud to announce results from the landmark independent
#OPTIMA (Optimal Personalised Treatment of early breast cancer using Multi-parameter Analysis) trial, led by University College London (
@ucl).
The results, which will be presented at the
#ASCO26 Annual Meeting, conclude that the Prosigna® Breast Risk of Recurrence (ROR) test safely guides adjuvant chemotherapy decisions in patients with early-stage, estrogen receptor (ER) positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer.
| Impact |
The study shows for the first time, based on the Prosigna test results, that more than 2/3 of patients with clinically high-risk node-positive breast cancer, including premenopausal women and patients with 4 to 9 positive nodes, could safely forgo chemotherapy and its long-term physical and emotional side effects without compromising outcomes.
For decades, chemotherapy decisions have relied on clinical factors alone such as age, tumor size, and lymph node status. Today, many node-positive breast cancer patients still receive chemotherapy as standard of care with up to 43% of breast cancer survivors experiencing persistent nerve damage years after chemotherapy.*
The Prosigna test determines a patient's ROR score, estimates the 10-year probability of distant recurrence, and identifies patients who can benefit from chemotherapy and those who may safely avoid it.
The OPTIMA trial results deliver practice-changing evidence to inform more personalized chemotherapy decision-making. These results show that the Prosigna test can accurately predict chemotherapy benefit and guide safe de-escalation across the broadest set of patients with clinically high-risk breast cancer to-date.
Prof. Rob Stein, Lead Investigator, from UCL will present the OPTIMA trial results at the
#ASCO2026 Annual Meeting.
| Presentation Details |
📅 Saturday, May 30 at 1:15 PM CDT
📍 Location: Breast Cancer – Local/Regional/Adjuvant, Hall B1, Abstract 500
| Resources |
📄 Press release:
investor.veracyte.com/news-r…
🔗 Event information -
veracyte.com/company/events-…
🧬 More on the OPTIMA trial -
optimabreaststudy.com/
| References |
(*) Kamgar M, et al. Prevalence and predictors of peripheral neuropathy after breast cancer treatment. Cancer Medicine. 2021;10(19):6666-6676.
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