Breast Cancer and Hormone Replacement Therapy

By PJ Hamel, Health Guide Thursday, March 06, 2008

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Many women who took a combination hormone replacement therapy drug—estrogen and progestin, e.g., Prempro, et. al.—ceased their medication back in July, 2002, when a major clinical trial showed that these HRT drugs seemed to be a breast cancer risk factor. Another study, released in Decemb...

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Lolo

3/13/08 1:44pm

Hi PJ - Lolo here - hope you are well.

Questions: What is you are negative for HR - triple negative??? I know you take tamoxifin for positive HR receptors - is there any remedy for triple negative??? I plan to visit with my oncologist next wweek about this too. Thanks,

PJ Hamel, Health Guide

3/13/08 2:23pm

Hi Lolo - As I understand it, you can be ER/PR-receptive, which about 70% of women with breast cancer are; or HER-2 receptive, which some women are; or "triple negative," which means you're not receptive for either estrogen, progesterone, or HER-2 (which is a protein, I believe.) If you're triple negative, that means you don't take hormone therapy, but do chemo instead, I believe. I'm getting in pretty deep here... you'd best speak with your oncologist. Good luck- PJH

Lolo

3/13/08 2:32pm

thanks - that's what I thought. I am going to talk to my oncologist about it next week. Thanks again.

Breast Cancer and Hormone Replacement Therapy

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