Decreased survival for Puerto Rican women with 'triple-negative' breast cancer subtype
Sunday, October 3, 2010 - 05:40
in Health & Medicine
Puerto Rican women who had breast cancer that lacked oestrogen and progesterone receptors and did not overexpress the HER2neu protein (triple-negative) had worse survival than those with other types of invasive breast cancer, according to a study presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2010...