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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-8-26
pubmed:abstractText
Twenty-eight patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma entered a multicentric prospective study to evaluate the response to high-dose medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) and testosterone in MPA failures in relation to sex steroid receptors. No objective remission was seen in the 24 evaluable patients, and only disease stabilizations of short duration were achieved in one-third of treated patients. Stabilizations achieved with second line testosterone were all seen in patients unresponsive to MPA. Receptor studies demonstrated that estrogen, progesterone, or androgen receptors were found in low concentrations and in only 6 of 23 tumors (26%) and 13 normal tissue samples (56%). Surprisingly, no disease stabilization was achieved in patients positive for receptors. It can be concluded that the occasional objective responses to hormone therapy reported in the literature may have been due to some cytotoxic effect of hormone therapy rather than to a true hormonal mechanism.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0300-8916
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
69
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
215-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
Hormone treatment and sex steroid receptors in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: report of a multicentric prospective study.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't