| Abbreviation | Full Name |
| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| BC | Breast cancer |
| CI | Confidence intervals |
| DGEs | Differential gene expressions |
| DSS | Disease-specific survival |
| GDC | Genomic Data Commons |
| HER2 | Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| KM | Kaplan–Meier |
| PFI | Progression-free interval |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| OS | Overall survival |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TNM | T, tumor size, N, lymph node status, M, metastasis status |