The Sex Hormones in Advanced Breast Cancer

Abstract

THE treatment of cancer of the breast is one of the gravest and most formidable problems confronting the medical profession at the present time. The National Cancer Institute recently estimated that the number of new cancer cases (all sites) increased 34 per cent during the ten-year period 1937 to 1947 and that of this increase only 7 per cent was due to greater longevity. There is little comfort in the knowledge that breast cancer in the female is the most common type of cancer, according to current death rates for all malignant diseases. Statistics, compiled both in this country and . . .