Sentences with phrase «called human epidermal growth factor receptor»

Others respond to another protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, or HER2.

The analysis also found that Asian / Pacific Islander women were more likely to be diagnosed with another subtype of breast cancer: so - called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)- overexpressing breast cancer.

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The study, called the PALOMA - 3, enrolled 521 pre - / peri - and postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor - negative (HR + / HER2 --RRB- advanced disease.

Triple - negative cancers are so called because they do not express receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, nor for HER2 (human epidermal growth factor 2), and hence patients with these cancers are not candidates for treatment with modern hormonal therapies or the highly effective HER2 - targeted drug Herceptin (trastuzumab).

Many women are «triple negative» No one yet knows precisely why, but African - American women are roughly twice as likely as white women to have triple - negative breast cancer — so called because tumor cells in this particularly aggressive form of the disease test negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER - 2).