Advanced Breast Cancer Support & Resources Appointment Prep Medically Reviewed byMurtaza Cassoobhoy, MDon March 18, 2023 Written byGina Shaw 3 min read Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer About 80% of allbreastcancers are “ER-positive.” That means thecancercells grow in response to the hor...
ER-Positive Breast Cancer: Chemotherapy Plus Tamoxifen Extends SurvivalAn abstract is unavailable.doi:10.1097/01.COT.0000287844.29669.86Susman, EdOncology Times
This is particularly problematic for breast cancer, where ER-positive patients experience higher mortality from nonmalignant causes owing to their increased age at diagnosis relative to ER-negative patients. 这对乳腺癌尤其成问题,在乳腺癌中,ER-阳性患者由于相对于ER-r阴性患者诊断年龄的增加,非恶性原因导...
et al. Prediction of late distant recurrence in patients with oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer: a prospective comparison of the breast-cancer index (BCI) assay, 21-gene recurrence score, and IHC4 in the TransATAC study population. Lancet Oncol. 14, 1067–1076 (2013). Article PubMed ...
36、for women with ER-positive or PR-positive breast cancer(激素疗法对ER阳性或PR阳性乳腺癌十分有效). These are cancers that grow more rapidly in response to the hormones estrogen or progesterone(即指对雌激素和孕酮的反应具有生长加速作用的乳腺肿瘤). Hormone therapy can block this effect(激素疗法...
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The long-sought discovery of HER2 as an actionable and highly sensitive therapeutic target was a major breakthrough for the treatment of highly aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer, leading to approval of the first HER2-targeted drug — the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab — almost 25 years ago....
The new data suggested that women with ER-positive breast cancer should at least consider taking anti-estrogen therapy beyond five years, the researchers said. Doctors have long known that five years of tamoxifen reduces recurrence by approximately half during treatment, and by nearly a third over...
Abstract Estrogen receptor α (ERα) is the crucial factor in ERα-positive breast cancer progression. Endocrine therapies targeting ERα signaling is one of the widely used therapeutic strategies for breast cancer. However, a large number of the patients become refractory to therapy. Abnormal expre...
Two challenges in treating patients with estrogen-positive breast cancer (ER+) have been an inability to predict who will respond to standard therapies and adverse events leading to therapy discontinuation. A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson