Biology 1st Edition by Jung Choi, Jean DeSaix, Yael Avissar, Vladimir Jurukovski, Robert Wise,Connie Rye, OpenStax

Exercise 14

Targeted therapies are used in patients with a set gene expression pattern. A targeted therapy that prevents the activation of the estrogen receptor in breast cancer would be beneficial to which type of patient?
A) patients who express the EGFR receptor in normal cells
B) patients with a mutation that inactivates the estrogen receptor
C) patients with lots of the estrogen receptor expressed in their tumor
D) patients that have no estrogen receptor expressed in their tumor