Understanding the triple negative breast cancer

Haaa - there is a definition for everything, my breast cancer included: It is triple negative. What does it mean then? It's what I have said - no targeteed drugs to be used, lower survival rate than with the other types (approximately 1 in 4 dies of it in a few years, and if it is found spread into other organs like liver or brain, life expectancy is approximately 13 months. According to statistics, that is. I have always believed in knowing my enemy. And my life is not statistics. Against all odds I am still alive. :) )



So I have the stage-three (most aggressive) "triple negative" breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that disproportionally strikes younger women and Hispanic and African-Americans (and me), and is impervious to the newest treatments. Yet my tumor was found in a very early stage so that gives some hope - also it was, so it seemed, not spread yet since there was nothing in the armpit lymph nodes.If that is to proove anything. I believe it is, since I don't know about anything else.



I am studying more of it so I save the links here to have them somewhere when I have time to concentrate.



http://dailyme.com/story/2010101000000699/shedding-light-triple-negative-breast-cancer.html



http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/breastcancer/bs-hs-triple-negative-breast-cancer-20101001,0,1038153.story



http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-center/breast-cancer/awareness-month/triple-negative-breast-cancer-survivor?icid=main|main|dl3|sec1_lnk3|175568&a_dgi=aolshare_twitter



http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-center/breast-cancer/awareness-month/triple-negative-breast-cancer-survivor-2?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter



http://www.dddmag.com/news-Researchers-Image-Triple-Negative-Breast-Cancer-with-PET-42210.aspx



http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=25387



http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=124935795&Channel_ID=22&Category_ID=262



http://www.myfoxchattanooga.com/dpp/health/Cancer-on-the-Frontlines-How-I-Beat-Triple-Negative-Breast-Cancer_09370950?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter



http://www.koat.com/health/24904938/detail.html