Effects of endocrinologic conditions associated with acute versus chronic lactation on the incidence of mammary carcinomas in irradiated rats: brief communication

Gould, M.N.; Clifton, K.H.; Crowley, J.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute 60(2): 469-471

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0027-8874
PMID: 563924
Document Number: 130418
Groups of female Fischer rats received 500 rad of gamma -irradiation and were maintained in hormone states that promoted or inhibited lactation. Chronically lactating rats developed no mammary tumours. Rats that did not lactate or lactated acutely only during the period surrounding irradiation developed similar numbers of carcinomas.

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