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Abstract
New findings indicate that hormones may play a permissive role, rather than an inductive one, in mammary tumorigenesis. Hormones supporting normal gland development may result in the emergence of precancerous lesions; hormones maintaining such hyperplastic lesions may result in the emergence of tumors. The "inherited hormonal influence" may rest in genetically determined sensitivity of mammary tissue to somatotropin.Entities:
Keywords: BREAST NEOPLASMS/experimental; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL/experimental; HORMONES/pharmacology
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Year: 1960 PMID: 13799605 DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3406.1039
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728