Background/Aim: CD58 is an immune adhesion molecule on the cellular surface. It was previously found that a high expression of CD58 predicted a poor prognosis of patients with lower-grade gliomas. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to investigate the association between CD58 and breast cancer. Materials and Methods: CD58 gene expression data downloaded from cBioPortal was compared between the different subtypes of breast cancer. Clinical prognosis was examined using Kaplan-Meier analysis and multivariable Cox regression analysis. The association between CD58 expression and immune cell infiltration was estimated using the TIMER 2.0 web platform. Finally, the tumour sphere formation of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) high basallike breast cancer stem cells in which CD58 was knocked down using siRNA was measured. Results: CD58 mRNA was mainly enriched in claudin-low and basal-like subtypes. The high expression of CD58 predicted a good prognosis in patients with luminal A and luminal B breast cancer. This prediction may be due to the association of immune cell infiltration with CD58. Notably, patients with luminal A breast cancer with a high expression of CD58 in association with ALDH1A3 exhibited a good prognosis; however, this did not apply to patients with basal-like breast cancer. The in vitro experiments revealed that knockdown of CD58 inhibited the tumour sphere formation ability of ALDH1 high basal-like cancer cells. Conclusion: CD58 may function as a potential prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target in ALDHpositive basal-like cancer stem cells.According to the enumeration published in 2022, over 287,000 new cases of breast cancer have been estimated to be diagnosed in the United States each year, with breast cancer accounting for 31% of all cancers among females. In addition, over 43,000 women are estimated to succumb to the disease each year (1). Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease which can be subtyped by predictive analysis of the microarrays 50 (PAM50) gene panel. Breast cancer PAM50 molecular subtypes include luminal A, luminal B, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-enriched, basallike, normal-like and claudin-low. Luminal A and B subtypes are mainly associated with oestrogen receptor (ER) + cancers (2, 3), while the majority of triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are also classified as claudin-low and basal-like subtypes (4).Based on the subtyping, treatment of breast cancer mainly entails surgery, radiotherapy, and drug therapy, including chemotherapy, endocrine therapy and molecular targeted therapy. In general, patients with luminal A breast cancer have a favourable prognosis owing to the effectiveness of anti-hormone receptor therapy (5). By contrast, patients with the basal-like subtype have an unfavourable prognosis due to resistance to conventional therapy (6). Therefore, there is 5223