What treatment did you get from your doctor?

Please visiit our own website's information on suggested treatment for your friend's type of breast cancer, it is in the menu across the very top of this page for "Treatment & Side Effects," it will give you the most reliable information.  "Symptoms & Diagnosis" might be good to read, too.  Anyhow, the treatment section has a good introductory page, and then you choose from various menus the areas you want to see more info on.  Just in case it's hard to find this info, here is the link to the treatment section:

http://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/

My diagnosis is at the bottom of my post, as it is for many others who post.  I cannot comment on the ER, PR, or HER part.  But I have a similar diagnosis to your friend, and I'm 60 years old, and this is the treatment my cancer surgeon arrranged for me: 

1.  Five months of chemotherapy, which included four infusions of Adriamycin (doxorubicin) and Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide), each three weeks apart; then twelve infusions of Taxol (paclitaxel), each one week apart. 

2.  Surgery, which I agreed to a mastectomy, is surgical removal of the affected breast, as well as enlarged/cancerous lymph nodes on up into the armpit.

3.  Six weeks of DAILY radiation, which is directed to the affected area where the breast was.

Many years ago, and depending on the diagnosis, surgery would come before chemo.  In today's time, chemotherapy first can provide the best chance for survival, but again it depends on the diagnosis.  Chemotherapy can be hard on a person, but there are medicines typically used to assist with things like pain control, tranquilizers for nerves, anti-nausea medicine, and shots to increase blood cell counts that are depleted with chemotherapy.  I hope your friend can get some sort of successful treatment for her cancer, and I hope she gets well soon.  GG