PR- at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is PR-? Progesterone receptor negative. Describes cells that do not have a protein to which the hormone progesterone will bind. Cancer cells that are PR- do not need progesterone to grow, and usually do not stop growing when treated with hormones that block proge

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