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Progress in endocrine therapy for breast carcinoma
Author(s) -
Hortobagyi Gabriel N.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19980701)83:1<1::aid-cncr1>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - medicine , hormone , endocrine system , hormonal therapy , carcinoma , mammary carcinoma , breast carcinoma , breast cancer , ablative case , bioinformatics , oncology , cancer , radiation therapy , biology
An increased understanding of the mechanism of action of steroid hormonal agents has transformed clinicians' ability to identify hormone‐sensitive breast carcinoma. Furthermore, a new generation of hormonal agents has replaced the major surgical ablative procedures and the original additive hormonal agents used in the past.