The relative success with which the response of breast cancer to endocrine therapy can be
predicted by assay of female sex steroid receptors has led to attempts to use measurement …

Within urological practice, three important types of cancer seem to be under endocrine
influence or develop in endocrine-dependent organs: prostate cancer, hypernephroma and …

During the last decade, the clinical use of steroid hormone receptor assays has become an
accepted part of the management of a number of diseases of hormone target organs. In …

Identification of specific 17-beta-estradiol, 5-alpha-dihydrotestosterone and progesterone
binding proteins in 10 patients with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate is presented …

The determination of steroid-receptors in human prostatic tissue from 68 patients with
benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) and 36 patients with prostatic cancer by the method of …

In this preliminary study, we have determined the receptors in normal human prostatic tissue
or from patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy and patients with prostatic cancer. A …

The concept of endocrine manipulation of malignant tumours was originally suggested and
examined by Beatson (1896), who found that oophorectomy can effect a striking remission of …

Abstract Androgen (AR), estrogen (ER), and progesterone (PR) receptors have been found
in human prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostatic carcinoma (PC)(AR mainly in the …

Suitable assays for nuclear androgen-receptors in human prostatic cancer tissue have been
presented. Correlations between NAR-content and response to hormonal therapy are …

Prostatic cancer is the second most common malignancy in American males and the
majority of patients are found to have advanced stages of the disease at the time of its …