• Preoperative serum lipid profile (TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C, ApoAI, ApoB) and the clinical data were retrospectively collected for 1,044 breast cancer patients undergoing operation • Kaplan-Meier method and the Cox proportional hazards regression model were used in analyzing the OS and DFS. This evidence concerns the gene APOA1 and breast carcinoma.