City Of Hope Radio

Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer

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Sinopsis

Triple-negative breast cancer represents approximately 15 percent of all breast cancers, but it is diagnosed at a higher rate in patients with hereditary (particularly BRCA1-gene associated) breast cancer, as well as among African-American women.In this segment, Yuan Yuan, MD., Ph.D. discusses this aggressive form of breast cancer and how City of Hope is leading the field in advancements for this type of cancer and how there are several innovative clinical trials both for newly diagnosed and Stage 4 triple negative breast cancer patients that play into efforts going on nationally to address these difficult to treat tumors.