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Seeing if Hormone Therapy Will Work for Breast Cancer Patients Only around half of the women diagnosed with breast cancer will benefit from hormonal therapy, a cancer treatment that adds, blocks, or removes specific hormones to stall the growth and spread of breast cancer cells. The women who respond to these therapies are hormone receptor-positive, meaning that the breast tumor cells carry functional receptors for estrogen or progesterone or both.  The problem is that until now, there is no simple and reliable way to determine whether a patient falls into the responder or non-responder category. “If breast cancer in a patient is estrogen receptor-positive, doctors will usually recommend hormone therapy even though they know it will only work for slightly more than half the patients,” explained radiology expert Farrokh Dehdashti from Washington University in St. Louis.

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