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乳癌え荷爾蒙療法 Hormonal Therapy and Breast Cancer Hormonal Therapy and 乳癌え荷爾蒙療法 Breast Cancer Hormonal therapies for breast cancer change the 荷爾蒙療法會改變體內雌激素 balance of estrogen in the body. The effect of these 的平衡去治療乳癌。這治療可以 treatments is to block hormones that can stimulate 阻止激素刺激乳癌細胞生長和乳 growth of breast cancer cells in breast cancers with 癌的荷爾蒙接收體的增生。荷爾 hormone receptors. Hormonal therapies can prevent 蒙療法既可預防早期乳癌復發 ， cancer from coming back in early breast cancer or 也可控制晚期乳癌。 control disease in advanced breast cancer. When a breast cancer is removed or a biopsy is 當乳癌被切除或在完成活檢 done, one of the tests in the laboratory determines 後，就會在實驗室中做一個測試 whether or not there are estrogen and/or progester- 去判斷乳癌細胞是否有雌激素或 one receptors on your breast cancer cells. These re- 孕激素接收體 。這些接收體就像 ceptors are like docking stations that the hor- “塢站” ，雌激素和孕激素可以 mones estrogen and progesterone can connect to 連接到接收體去刺激乳癌的生 長。當接收體存在，乳癌的雌激 and stimulate the growth of breast cancer. When the 素接收體會呈陽性反應 （ER+ ） receptors are present, the breast cancer is estrogen 或孕激素接收體會呈陽性反應 receptor positive (ER+) and/or progesterone recep- （PR+ ）。如果乳癌細胞具有雌 tor positive (PR+). If the breast cancer cells have es- 激素和/或孕激素接收體 ，荷爾 trogen and/or progesterone receptors, this predicts 蒙療法將會是治療你有效的一部 that the hormonal therapies will be a useful part of 分。如果患乳癌細胞有很少或沒 your treatment. If your breast cancer cells have few 有雌激素或孕激素接收體 （ER Hormonal Therapy and Breast Cancer Bilingual English/ Traditional Chinese or no estrogen or progesterone receptors