Clinical and hormonal aspects in breast cancer with special reference to malignant evolutive push
Kiricuta, I.; Frenkel, Z.; Munteanu, S.
Archiv für Geschwulstforschung 45(5): 464-472
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-911X PMID: 1212065 Document Number: 86415
It is tried to differentiate between various stages of malignant evolutive push and normal mammary tumors to establish an individual therapeutic procedure. Besides mammography and thermometry, investigations of urinary excretions of estrogenic and androgenic steriods are qualified for this purpose. Patients with malignant evolutive push showed an increased excretion of estrogens which reached its highest levels in patients suffering from inflammatory mammary carcinomas. The excretion of 17-ketosteroids shows a behaviour vice versa. Altogether mammary tumors with malignant evolutive push are characterized by a state of absolute and relative hyperestrogenity respectively. This phenomenon preferably depends on the clinical stage of the disease than on the age of the patients.