How helpful is hormone therapy for triple negative...

What does triple negative mean?

• Your pathology report may say that the breast cancer cells tested negative for estrogen receptors (ER-), progesterone receptors (PR-), and HER2 (HER2-).
• Testing negative for all three means the cancer is triple-negative

Treatment of triple negative cancer ?

• Triple-negative breast cancer is typically treated with a combination of therapies such as surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy
• Some research has shown that hormone-receptor-negative breast cancers which triple-negative breast cancers are actually respond better to chemotherapy
• Some studies have looked at whether giving chemotherapy before surgery called neoadjuvant therapy may be a good option for women with triple-negative breast cancer and there was debate
• I advice you to be followed by your oncologist