100 female patients with newly diagnosed locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer were recruited into a prospective phase II study and randomized to one of two alternating sequences of doxorubicin 75 mg/m2 (A) and docetaxel 75 mg/m2 (T)...Increased expression of THBS1 and TNC...High baseline THBS1 and SPARC were significantly associated with poorer OS (Figure 2A–2B), and high baseline SPARC was an independent prognostic marker in multivariate analysis (HR adjusted 3.78, 95% CI 1.03–13.92, p = 0.045)…