Your doctor will check to see if your tumor has hormone receptors. If it does, they may call it "hormone-receptor positive," “ER-positive,” or “PR-positive.” For advanced cases ...

As these hormone binds to their receptor, a cascade of reactions is triggered within the cytoplasm of the cell. The integral membrane receptors usually function through the activation of secondary ...

The cells in these breast cancers have proteins called hormone receptors. When a hormone binds to a receptor, it tells the cell to become cancerous. Your doctor will be able to test to see if your ...

current treatment focuses on using drugs that block estrogen (a type of hormone) from attaching to estrogen receptors on tumor cells to prevent the cells from growing and spreading. In a new study ...

"Since at least 50 percent of patients with breast cancer express all three receptors—estrogen, androgen and vitamin D in their tumor cells, this may allow clinicians to consider triple hormone ...