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The hormonodependence of certain tumours has for a long time been demonstrated.
It is known, for example, since the end of nineteenth century, that bilateral ovariectomy improves breast cancer.
In 1941, Higgins demonstrated that bilateral castration considerably improved metastatic bone pain in prostate cancer sufferers. It is has also been acknowledged for many years that castrated men never develop prostate carcinoma.
In practice, we can study the following cancers as hormonodependent:
- breast cancer,
- prostate cancer,
- corpus uteri cancer,
- thyroid cancer,
- for few and short responses: ovarian and kidney cancers.
Role of analogues of hypothalamic hormones ( LH-RH)
Other chapters of this website
- Natural history of cancer
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer screening
- Cancer diagnosis
- Tumour markers
- Principles of Cancer Classification
- Cancer surgery
- Cancer radiotherapy
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Cancer hormonotherapy
- Other cancer therapies
- Multidisciplinary approach of cancer patients
- Psychological aspects
- Post-therapeutic follow-up
- Palliative care in cancer
- Cancer emergencies
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