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Triple negative breast cancer: unmet medical needs.
Breast cancer research and treatment - 1 Feb 2011
Pal Sumanta Kumar, Childs Barrett H, Pegram Mark
Abstract excerpt
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive clinical phenotype characterized by lack of expression (or minimal expression) of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) as well as an absence of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) overexpression. It shows substantial overlap with basal-type and BRCA1-related breast cancers, both of which also have aggressive clinical courses....
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