ER- at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is ER-? Estrogen receptor negative. Describes cells that do not have a protein to which the hormone estrogen will bind. Cancer cells that are ER- do not need estrogen to grow, and usually do not stop growing when treated with hormones that block estrogen from bin

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