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Biological Basis of Hormonal Therapy of Cancer

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The following discussion will be based mainly on a consideration of mammary cancer as a malignant tumor which can be induced by hormones in experimental animals and which, in humans and sometimes in animals, manifests the property of hormone dependence or hormone sensitivity.

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  1. Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des Tumeurs de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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Tagnon, H.J. (1969). Biological Basis of Hormonal Therapy of Cancer. In: Mathé, G. (eds) Scientific Basis of Cancer Chemotherapy. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88147-3_7

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