Hormones and breast cancer: controlling the danger within

For the first half of the 20th century, the effects of sex hormones on breast cancer were poorly understood due to the lack of an animal model. In 1959, Charles Huggins devised a method to induce hormone-responsive mammary cancers in rats. The model paved the way for new treatment and prevention str...

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Autor principal: Bashyam, Hema
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17523238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.2044fta
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spelling pubmed-21185582007-12-13 Hormones and breast cancer: controlling the danger within Bashyam, Hema J Exp Med From the Archive For the first half of the 20th century, the effects of sex hormones on breast cancer were poorly understood due to the lack of an animal model. In 1959, Charles Huggins devised a method to induce hormone-responsive mammary cancers in rats. The model paved the way for new treatment and prevention strategies for breast cancer. The Rockefeller University Press 2007-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2118558/ /pubmed/17523238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.2044fta Text en Copyright © 2007, The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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