Posted 6/12/2013 by hhill
As many of you know, "triple negative" is a relatively new term used to describe breast cancers that are estrogen receptor negative, progesterone receptor negative, and her2 negative. For treatments, this means that neither the hormonal/anti-estrogen treatments or herceptin are useful. Often, triple negative breast cancers are grade III and believed to be of an aggressive nature. The "good" news about this is that they are particularly sensitive to chemotherapy as all chemo drugs attack fast growing cells.
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