ERBB3 and breast carcinoma: In addition, tamoxifen-sensitive luminal-like breast cancer cells exogenously treated with the HER3 ligand HRGβ1, or engineered to overproduce the HER3 ligand HRGβ2, have been shown to acquire a bona fide endocrine-resistant phenotype in terms of estrogen-independent growth and refractoriness to anti-estrogen therapies, both in vitro and in vivo [10,11,12,13,14,15].