The role of hormones in the etiology of human breast cancer

The Thyroid Gland.

1965 • 1,816 citations

Increased Risk of Endometrial Carcinoma among Users of Conjugated Estrogens

1975 • 996 citations

Source of Estrogen Production in Postmenopausal Women1

1973 • 961 citations

Association of Exogenous Estrogen and Endometrial Carcinoma

1975 • 950 citations

Etiology of Human Breast Cancer: A Review2

1973 • 781 citations

Textbook of Endocrinology.

1975 • 643 citations

The Menopausal Transition: Analysis of LH, FSH, Estradiol, and Progesterone Concentrations During Menstrual Cycles of Older Women

1976 • 581 citations

Hormonal characteristics of the human menstrual cycle throughout reproductive life.

1975 • 563 citations

Pituitary and Gonadal Hormones in Women during Spontaneous and Induced Ovulatory Cycles

1970 • 376 citations

Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer.

1969 • 360 citations

Myocardial Disorders in the Elderly

1963 • 349 citations

Menopausal Estrogens and Breast Cancer

1976 • 342 citations

Testosterone and Androstenedione Blood Production Rates in Normal Women and Women with Idiopathic Hirsutism or Polycystic Ovaries*

1967 • 324 citations

Prolactin and carcinogenesis

1973 • 293 citations

A study of the epidemiology of cancer of the breast

1960 • 289 citations

Blood-volume and tolerance to pentolinium in the treatment of hypertension.

1960 • 260 citations

DIABETOGENIC DRUGS

1976 • 260 citations

INFLUENCE OF BODY WEIGHT ON ESTRADIOL METABOLISM IN YOUNG WOMEN

1975 • 231 citations

Breast cancer incidence and nutritional status with particular reference to body weight and height.

1975 • 205 citations

RESERPINE USE IN RELATION TO BREAST CANCER

1974 • 205 citations

RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN USE OF RAUWOLFIA DERIVATIVES AND BREAST CANCER IN ENGLISH WOMEN

1974 • 199 citations

Androgen production and metabolism in normal and virilized women

1972 • 183 citations

ŒSTROGEN FRACTIONS DURING EARLY REPRODUCTIVE LIFE IN THE ÆTIOLOGY OF BREAST CANCER

1969 • 170 citations

Metabolic clearance and blood production rates of estrogens in postmenopausal women

1971 • 169 citations

PARACETAMOL HEPATOXICITY

1976 • 168 citations

SELECTION OF BREAST-CANCER PATIENTS FOR ADRENALECTOMY OR HYPOPHYSECTOMY BY DETERMINATION OF URINARY 17-HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROIDS AND ÆTIOCHOLANOLONE

1960 • 165 citations

THYROID-ANDROGEN INTERRELATIONS AND THE HYPOCHOLESTEREMIC EFFECT OF ANDROSTERONE*

1959 • 155 citations

WHAT WILL REORGANISATION DO FOR THE PATIENT?

1974 • 148 citations

Oral Contraceptives and Reduced Risk of Benign Breast Diseases

1976 • 147 citations

Reduced Estriol Excretion in Patients With Breast Cancer Prior to Endocrine Therapy

1966 • 144 citations

Inadequate corpus luteum function: a pathophysiological interpretation of human breast cancer epidemiology.

1974 • 142 citations

PROLONGED ESTROGEN THERAPY IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

1959 • 141 citations

Effects of Induced Hyperthyroidism on Steroid Metabolism in Man

1971 • 138 citations

Oral Contraceptives as Related to Cancer and Benign Lesions of the Breast 2

1975 • 133 citations

Elevated Serum Levels of Estrogen and Prolactin in Daughters of Patients with Breast Cancer

1975 • 131 citations

Effects of estrone, estradiol, and estriol on hormone-responsive human breast cancer in long-term tissue culture.

1977 • 129 citations

Interaction of Δ⁵-Androstene-3β,17β-diol with Estradiol and Dihydrotestosterone Receptors in Human Myometrial and Mammary Cancer Tissue1

1975 • 123 citations

Advances in vascular surgery.

1947 • 120 citations

ABNORMAL URINARY STEROID EXCRETION AND SUBSEQUENT BREAST CANCER

1967 • 118 citations

Urine œstrogen profiles OF Asian and North American women

1974 • 118 citations

Reserpine and Breast Cancer in a Retirement Community

1975 • 116 citations

WHOOPING-COUGH VACCINATION

1974 • 114 citations

Androgen Production and Conversion to Estrogens in Normal Postmenopausal Women and in Selected Breast Cancer Patients

1973 • 109 citations

ABNORMAL EXCRETION OF URINARY STEROIDS BY WOMEN WITH EARLY BREAST CANCER

1962 • 108 citations

Breast cancer. Relationship to thyroid supplements for hypothyroidism

1976 • 104 citations

The Effects of Thyroxin Administration on the Enzymic Reduction of Δ4-3-Ketosteroids

1959 • 103 citations

Estrogen Profiles of Oriental and Caucasian Women in Hawaii

1974 • 98 citations

The Production, Origin and Role of Dehydroepiandrosterone and Δ⁵-Androstenediol as Androgen Prehormones in Hirsute Women¹

1973 • 97 citations

PLASMA-PROLACTIN IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER

1974 • 95 citations

BREAST CANCER IN PATIENTS WITH HASHIMOTO'S THYROIDITIS

1975 • 95 citations

HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-THYROID AXIS IN BREAST CANCER

1974 • 95 citations

Spontaneous and estrogen-produced tumors in Nb rats and their behavior after transplantation.

1975 • 94 citations

Effect of Thyroid on Hydroxylation of Estrogen in Man

1965 • 93 citations

A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE URINARY STEROID EXCRETION OF NORMAL WOMEN AND WOMEN WITH ADVANCED BREAST CANCER

1962 • 91 citations

Plasma prolactin in breast cancer

1973 • 87 citations

HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-PROLACTIN AXIS IN BREAST CANCER

1974 • 80 citations

Hormonal Regulation of Gene Expression in Mammary Cells

1973 • 80 citations

The premenstrual endometrial pattern of women with breast cancer.A study of progestational activity

1964 • 76 citations

PROLACTIN RECEPTORS: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARTICULATE FRACTION BINDING ACTIVITY

1974 • 70 citations

MATCHED-PAIRS STUDY OF RESERPINE USE AND BREAST CANCER

1975 • 67 citations

The pill, estrogens, and the breast.Epidemiologic aspects

1971 • 67 citations

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND BREAST CANCER

1975 • 64 citations

Endocrine influences on human mammary cancer formationa critique

1969 • 61 citations

Influence of Thyroid Hormone on Estrogen Metabolism in Man

1962 • 61 citations

Prolactin Concentrations in Patients with Breast Cancer

1974 • 61 citations

Effects of ergocornine and ergocryptine on growth of 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene-induced mammary tumors in rats.

1971 • 60 citations

II. Urinary excretion of estrone, estradiol, and estriol by patients with breast cancer and benign breast disease

1965 • 60 citations

Estriol concentrations in plasma of normal, non-pregnant women

1975 • 57 citations

Urinary 17-Ketosteroid Excretion of Women with Advanced Breast Cancer

1968 • 56 citations

Alternative discriminating function for determining hormone dependency of breast cancer.

1967 • 56 citations

Mammary Tumor Induction by Estrogen or Anterior Pituitary Hormones in Ovariectomized Rats Given 7, 12-Dimethyl-l, 2-Benzanthracene.

1964 • 53 citations

Oestrogen and androgen receptors in breast cancer and response to endocrine therapy.

1975 • 50 citations

Plasma prolactin and breast cancer

1974 • 50 citations

Thyroid status and breast cancer. Reappraisal of an old relationship.

1973 • 50 citations

Breast Cancer

1976 • 50 citations

Persons at High Risk of Cancer: An Approach to Cancer Etiology and Control

1976 • 49 citations

The Effects of Long-Term Estrogen Administration to Women following Hysterectomy

2015 • 48 citations

Hormones and Human Breast Cancer

1970 • 48 citations

Risk factors in breast cancer

1976 • 48 citations

Prolactin receptors in mammary carcinoma cells.

1974 • 47 citations

Oral contraceptives and venous thromboembolic disease, surgically confirmed gallbladder disease, and breast tumours. Report from the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Programme.

1973 • 47 citations

Suppression by Ergocornine and Iproniazid of Carcinogen-Induced Mammary Tumors in Rats; Effects on Serum and Pituitary Prolactin Levels

1970 • 46 citations

Oophorectomy in Breast Cancer

1958 • 46 citations

Peripheral Metabolism of³H-estradiol and the Excretion of Endogenous Estrone and Estriol Glucosiduronate in Women with Breast Cancer

1971 • 45 citations

Fatty Acids and Multiple Sclerosis

1964 • 44 citations

THYROID FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH MAMMARY CANCER

1958 • 43 citations

Some features of breast cancer and thyroid deficiency.Report of 280 cases

1964 • 42 citations

Decreased Conversion of Androgens to Normal 17-Ketosteroid Metabolites: A Nonspecific Consequence of Illness

1971 • 42 citations

The Metabolic Clearance and Blood Production Rates of Estriol in Normal, Non-Pregnant Women

1976 • 38 citations

Prolactin and estrogen binding in transplantable hormone-dependent and autonomous rat mammary carcinoma.

1975 • 37 citations

Competition between estradiol and estriol for end organ receptor proteins

1967 • 37 citations

RAUWOLFIA DERIVATIVES AND BREAST CANCER

1975 • 37 citations

The relationship of breast disease to thyroid disease

1964 • 33 citations

Cancer and Thyroid Function

1963 • 32 citations

Regression of Spontaneous Mammary Tumors in Rats by Ergot Drugs

1971 • 30 citations

DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE RECEPTOR IN HUMAN MAMMARY CANCER

1973 • 29 citations

Thyroid activity in relation to prognosis in mammary cancer.

1967 • 29 citations

Letters to the Editor: LEVELS OF SERUM PROTEIN-BOUND IODINE IN PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST

1960 • 28 citations

THE EXCRETION OF OESTRONE, PREGNANEDIOL AND PREGNANETRIOL IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS

1963 • 28 citations

Breast cancer and hypothyroidism

1965 • 23 citations

URINARY ŒSTROGENS AFTER ENDOCRINE ABLATION

1960 • 23 citations

THYROID FUNCTION IN BREAST CANCER

1966 • 22 citations

Testosterone levels in the plasma of normal women and patients with benign breast disease or with breast cancer

1966 • 22 citations

URINARY ŒSTROGEN MEASUREMENTS AFTER OOPHORECTOMY AND ADRENALECTOMY FOR ADVANCED BREAST CANCER

1961 • 20 citations

Adrenal Structure and Function in Advanced Carcinoma of the Breast

1967 • 19 citations

Urinary steroid values as a guide to prognosis in breast cancer.

1968 • 17 citations

Endocrine Aspects of Breast Cancer

1957 • 17 citations

ŒSTROGEN PROFILES AND BREAST CANCER

1971 • 17 citations

Thyroid Hormone as a Prophylactic Agent Following Radical Treatment of Breast Cancer

1965 • 16 citations

Post-Menopausal Estrogen Production, with Special Reference to Patients with Mammary Carcinoma

2015 • 16 citations

Urinary steroid assays and response to endocrine ablation.

1967 • 13 citations

TRIIODOTHYRONINE IN ADVANCED BREAST CANCER

1963 • 13 citations

Oestrogen Excretion of Patients with Breast Cancer

1961 • 13 citations

Thyroid Function in Relation to Mammary Cancer

1961 • 12 citations

BREAST CANCER AND HASHIMOTO THYROIDITIS

1976 • 12 citations

Oestriol in human breast tumours

1976 • 10 citations

Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Rheumatic Fever

1963 • 6 citations

Hormonal Induction of Breast Cancer

1973 • 4 citations