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Joined: May 2008
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  • Posted on: May 4, 2008 07:45 pm
dcjoslin56 wrote:

Greetings;
OK, I understand most of your abbreviations. What is ER+, PR-, HER? And how do you put your data below the post, in the shaded letters?
Thank you.

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Bugs
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May 4, 2008 08:49 pm Bugs wrote:

dcj,

Go to "my home" and then edit your profile.  You can choose to keep the info private or make it public.

ER is estrogen receptor and it's either positive or negative

PR is progesterone receptor and it's either positive or negative

HER is the Her2N receptor

Take care,

Bugs

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. Frederick Buechnerr
Dx 2/1/2006, IDC, 6cm+, Stage IIIa, Grade 3, 3/16 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2-

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