Breast Cancer Identified Risks, Diagnostic, And Treatment Advancements Worth Knowing About

Immunotherapy

Triple-negative breast cancer, a type that accounts for ten to twenty percent of all breast cancers, is much more aggressive and also more likely to affect young women, black and Latino women, and women with the BRCA1 gene mutation. These tumors do not have estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, or the HER2 growth factor, which means three forms of targeted treatment are not an option.

Only radiation therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy can be used to combat against this form of tumor, often with very little effect, as it is highly likely to come back and spread. Immunotherapy medication can activate an individual’s immune system against the tumor, and though further research is needed, could one day prove to be a promising therapy against triple negative breast cancer.

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