Triple negative

Underwent mastectomy last week. Will see oncologist January 7. Does anyone have good information on diagnosis of triple negative hormone receptors? Treatment options? Thanks

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3 Comments

sonu78

Dec 06, 2007

Hi,
Triple negative hormone receptors is what you mean.
The triple receptors are the hormone receptors namely - ER, PR, Her-2-neu.
These receptors are analyzed not for diagnosis but for the purpose of deciding the proper adjuvant chemotherapy.

gardenstategal

Dec 06, 2007

To: sonu78

Hi -- thanks for your quick reponse. I am not finding a lot of information about treatment options, etc. Are there any good websites and/or any forum members with similar experience? Power is knowlege and I want to know as much as I can. Thanks again.

sonu78

Dec 12, 2007

To: gardenstategal

Hi,
You can probably try out the google search on mayo clinic which can give you quite good information
You can search in emedicine.com website

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