Thank you so much for the information and the prayers same day my sister found out staging our father found out he has colon cancer. I just feel so overwhelmed. Thanks again.
Dawnlyn
Hi,
I am sorry to hear about your sister’s diagnosis and this difficult time you are all going through.Also I pray and hope that the cancer has not spread to other parts of her body.
Triple negative, indicates that the cancer cells tested negative for estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER- and PR-), and HER2 (HER2-). Testing negative for all three means the cancer is triple-negative.
This type of breast cancer, signifies that these particular breast cancer cells lack both estrogen and progesterone receptors and do not overexpress the HER-2 protein like other breast cancers. As such, hormone therapies such as tamoxifen and therapies that target the HER-2 protein such as Herceptin (trastuzumab) are not effective in treating triple-negative breast cancer.
TNBC Grade 3 is an aggressive type of cancer and should therefore receive aggressive tx.Your sister would need Chemotherapy after surgery, because this type of BC respond well to Chemo.Her treating Doctors will plan a specific treatment for her and hopefully she’ll succeed in beating this disease.
My best wishes to both of you and the rest of the family…