Monday, March 2, 2015

Understanding Breast Cancer and Mammograms

What Is a Diagnostic Mammogram? Diagnostic mammograms differ from screening mammograms in that the examination focuses specifically on an area of breast tissue that appeared abnormal in a screening...

Types of Breast Cancer: ER Positive, HER2 Positive, and Triple Negative

Types of Breast Cancer HER2-Positive Breast Cancer continued For women with HER2-positive breast cancers, the drug Herceptin has been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of recurrence. It has...

Adjuvant Therapy for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Overexpression of HER2 occurs in approximately 20% of breast cancers and was correlated with a more aggressive phenotype and worse prognosis before the development of...

What the Meaning of HER2-Positive Breast Cancer?

HER2-positive breast cancer HER2-positive breast cancer is a breast cancer that tests positive for a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), which promotes the growth of...