| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| DFS | disease-free survival |
| DSS | disease-specific survival |
| ER | estrogen receptor |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| GSEA | gene set enrichment analysis |
| GSVA | gene set variation analysis |
| HER2 | human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 |
| METABRIC | Molecular Taxonomy of Breast Cancer International Consortium |
| NES | normalized enrichment score |
| OS | overall survival |
| pCR | pathological complete response |
| PFS | progression-free survival |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TNBC | triple negative breast cancer |