[HTML][HTML] Current approaches in treatment of triple-negative breast cancer

HA Wahba, HA El-Hadaad - Cancer biology & medicine, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer biology & medicine, 2015ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is diagnosed more frequently in younger and
premenopausal women and is highly prevalent in African American women. TNBC is a term
derived from tumors that are characterized by the absence of ER, PgR, and HER2. So
patients with TNBC do not benefit from hormonal or trastuzumab-based therapies. TNBCs
are biologically aggressive, although some reports suggest that they respond to
chemotherapy better than other types of breast cancer, prognosis remains poor. This is due …
Abstract
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is diagnosed more frequently in younger and premenopausal women and is highly prevalent in African American women. TNBC is a term derived from tumors that are characterized by the absence of ER, PgR, and HER2. So patients with TNBC do not benefit from hormonal or trastuzumab-based therapies. TNBCs are biologically aggressive, although some reports suggest that they respond to chemotherapy better than other types of breast cancer, prognosis remains poor. This is due to: shortened disease-free interval in the adjuvant and neoadjuvant setting and a more aggressive course in the metastatic setting.
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