Medical Hypotheses
Volume 61, Issue 3 , Pages 398-400, September 2003

Long-term relapses of breast cancer: a working hypothesis

  • S Basso Ricci

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: S. Basso Ricci MD, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Via Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy

Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Received 26 October 2001; accepted 20 December 2001.

Abstract 

The study of long-term relapses that present 8 years or more after mastectomy in breast cancer patients indicates these cases are strictly related to the presence of hormone receptors and particularly to estrogen receptors. It is possible to infer that the presence of estrogen receptors indirectly conditions the formation of antimitotic factors more effective than those used for therapy, to the point of determining in some cases the phenomenon of long-term relapses.

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PII: S0306-9877(03)00180-4

doi:10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00180-4

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 61, Issue 3 , Pages 398-400, September 2003

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