Most oncologists now are thinking of breast cancer as at least four diseases based on endocrine features - luminal A, luminal B, Her2 positive and the so called "triple negative" - breast cancers that express neither estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors nor Her2 receptors. These latter breast cancers, or "triple negative" breast cancers have a reputation (deservedly so) for being difficult to treat.
Yet many oncologists, like myself, have dozens of patients with "triple negative"...
If you’re a woman with HER2 positive breast cancer, stand up right now and cheer: Tykerb, a new drug approved this week by the FDA, has... Read more »
In my previous two posts on understanding your pathology report, we covered histology, margin status, grade, as well as size, lymph node... Read more »
Sometimes, things do not go as we like and breast cancer returns in a different site from the breast - a metastatic site. It's what... Read more »
If you’re one of the 20% of breast cancer survivors with HER2+ cancer, an important improvement in treatment has just been made: the FDA... Read more »
Q. I’ve been diagnosed with HER2-positive stage II breast cancer, and after surgery will be doing chemo (AC + T). After that’s done, my... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
SPoT-Light HER2 CISH, which stands for Subtraction Probe Technology Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization, is a test used to determine whether breast... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the tissues of the breast. There are two main types of breast cancer:Ductal carcinoma starts in the tubes... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
About 12% of women will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. Each year in the United States, about 207,000 women are diagnosed with... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
The three major treatments of breast cancer are surgery, radiation, and drug therapy. No one treatment fits every patient, and combination therapy is... Read more »
Background Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a relatively rare type of breast cancer grows in the lymph vessels of the skin of the breast. Because... Read more »
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