The therapeutic landscape for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) advanced breast cancer (BC) is moving from generalized ...

Hormone receptor-positive (HR-positive or HR+) breast cancer is a type of breast cancer that feeds on the presence of estrogen and progesterone hormones in the body to grow. This type of breast ...

The new test has been devised by scientists to detect the likelihood of cancer reoccurring in patients with a type of breast cancer known as oestrogen receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor ...

Dr. Patrick I. Borgen discussed estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and why it is important for patient to understand what this means for their treatment. It is key for patients to understand ...

Answer: If the breast cancer is hormone receptor-positive, this would mean that there has been the detection of the estrogen receptor, or the progesterone receptor, or both of these, inside that ...

If your cancer cells are PR-positive, ER-positive, or both, it’s called hormone-receptor (HR) positive, or HR+ breast cancer. About 7 out of 10 breast cancers are hormone-receptor positive.

A common anti-nausea drug used during chemotherapy may do more than ease discomfort, it could help women with aggressive ...

Risk Factors. Endogenous Hormones: High lifetime exposure to estrogen and progesterone increases the risk of hormone receptor positive breast cancer. Exogenous Hormones: A study by Salagame et al ...

The presence of estrogen and progesterone-receptor-positive stroma is well known in renal mixed epithelial and stromal tumor, cystic nephroma, and angiomyolipoma with epithelial cysts. It has been ...

— -- Question:What does it mean if my breast cancer is hormone receptor-positive or negative? Answer: Hormone receptor-positivity or negativity refers to the ability of the cancer cells to ...