By Hiroshi Nagasawa (auth.), Benjamin S. Leung Ph.D. (eds.)
The idea that hormones effect tumor progress originated in 1889 with the thought of Albert Schinzinger who instructed that breast melanoma is expounded to the ovaries. numerous years later, Sir George Beatson saw that remission of disseminated breast melanoma should be completed in premenopausal sufferers by way of acting bilateral oophorectomy. a result of contri butions of Hedley Atkins, Charles Huggins and others, additive and ablative hormonal cures were everyday for the therapy of complicated breast cancers for a number of a long time. version structures to review the results of hormones on development and regression of breast tumors were on hand for a few years; even though, the complexities of the hormonal atmosphere have rendered in vivo experiences tricky in guy and experimental animals. lately, the provision of long term cultures of breast melanoma cells has encouraged many investigators to exploit those telephone traces to solve the mechanisms of hormone motion. as a result severe variety and complexity of advances concerning the endocrinology of the breast and breast cancers, a multi-authored evaluate used to be deemed priceless. it's been pleasing to obtain contributions from many famous students. In quantity I of this monograph, the impression of steroid hormones and their antagonists upon common and neoplastic tissues of the mammary gland are awarded. In quantity II, the results of peptide and different hormones are reviewed.
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8 A o C B 0 CONTROL ..... ovx ! 1 >- '" a: -.... 1 & r 1 a: w ::; "'OJ z a: 0 ::; l I I 1 I 1 i:? O+---~--~----r-~ o 4 4 0 0 WEEKS OF OBSERVATION Fig .. 4. Effect of ovariectomy (OVX) on the number of NMUinduced mammary tumors per rat in the first (A), second (B) and third (C) 4-week periods of observations. The variations in tumor size per rat is shown in Fig. 5, where a somewhat similar pattern is observed. During the three periods of observation, there was a considerable increase in the average tumor area per rat in the control groups while OVX resulted in a stabilization or a regression of the size of the tumors.