OVARIAN INFLUENCE UPON SURVIVAL IN BREAST CANCER

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
FOR YEARS oophorectomy has been advocated in premenopausal cases of mammary cancer as a method of arresting its growth and of increasing the survival time in a significant percentage of cases. In this study an attempt has been made to determine whether a pathologic alteration of ovarian stroma commonly found associated with breast cancer has retarded or accelerated the malignant disease process. For this purpose the total disease durations in collected cases of untreated and mastectomized patients were compared with breast cancer cases in which the patients were also surgically castrated. Previous investigation of 100 autopsied cases of breast cancer indicated that, regardless of the age of the patient at cancer onset, in a large majority (83%) of cases the ovaries were abnormal, being characterized by a hyperplasia of the cortical stroma, reflecting active secretion of some steroid hormone.1 Circumstantial evidence pointed to anterior pituitary hyperfunction as the cause

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: