PGR and breast carcinoma: A number of studies have evaluate the effect of weight change on the risk of premenopausal breast cancer, but most evidence to date is from studies of ER and PR rather than HER2 disease, and the results are inconsistent (Huang et al. 1997; Michels et al. 2012; John et al. 2010; Weiderpass et al. 2004; Lahmann et al. 2005).