According to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation®
,approximately every half an hour another woman in the US is
diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. Triple negative
breast cancer accounts for approximately 15%-25% of all breast
cancer cases. Most Americans are familiar with breast cancer but
most don't realize there are many sub-types of breast cancer.
Triple negative breast cancer is one of those sub-types and
average Americans probably have not heard of it unless they know
someone who has been affected by it. Triple negative breast
cancer refers to any breast cancer that does not express the
genes for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone (PR), or
HER2/neu. They are hormone negative thus making it very
different in prognosis and treatment as opposed to their hormone
positive counterparts. The prognosis and survival rate for those
diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer is usually
dependent on the stage of the cancer, aggressiveness, and
metastasis. Far too often the prognosis is not goo