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Despite extensive research, various underlying mechanisms remain elusive, lacking a comprehensive unified perspective. Breast cancer (BC) remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, highlighting the pressing need to discover novel regulatory mechanisms, therapeutic targets, and potential biomarkers. In this study, we employed a bioinformatic approach based on data from The Cancer Genome Atlas to assess the association between combined dysregulation of specific pairs of genes involved in redox- or Ca<jats:sup>2+<\/jats:sup>-related cellular homeostases and patient outcome. These genes were selected by differences in their expression between normal and tumour tissues and in their individual association with patient survival rates. Cumulative proportion survival at the 5-year post-diagnosis was calculated for each quartile of expression within the population exhibiting either high or low expression of a second gene. Additional genes with expression positively or negatively correlated with the set of relevant gene pairs were identified, and a gene enrichment analysis was performed. Our results show that the simultaneous dysregulation of a selected number of gene pairs is substantially associated with BC patient survival. Notably, the expression dysregulation of these gene pairs is associated with altered expression of genes linked to cell cycle regulation, cell adhesion, and cell projection processes. 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