Serum Lipidomic Profiling in Breast Cancer to Identify Screening, Diagnostic, and Prognostic Biomarkers

Breast cancer is the major mortality cause of women worldwide. In the course of management of breast cancer, the identification of a biomarker is important in enhancing our knowledge on cancer pathology, predicting the response to treatment, and selecting the patients who are more favorable to receive certain treatments. These biomarkers have a prognostic value. In addition to traditional breast cancer prognosis factors such as the tumor size and grade, the axillary lymph node micrometastasis, and biomarkers such as HER2/neu, newly discovered biomarkers have been discovered. Some of these factors are genetic signature in tissue or in peripheral blood. Lipid profil, a simple and accessible biological examination, has been a novel path on the prediction of breast cancer risk of occurrence and recurrence in many studies. The main goal of our review is to evaluate lipid profile and breast cancer risk with an emphasis on the prognosis value of lipid profiles in breast cancer patient management.