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Published on: February 21, 2014
[Estrogen and progesterone receptors in laryngeal carcinoma]
Abstract:
The existence of hormone receptors on or within neoplastic tissue has potential diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic importance. It has now been demonstrated in many reports that cancers of the breast and prostate often express hormone receptors and can be controlled by hormone manipulation. The fact that larynx is a target organ for androgenic steroids has long been known. The question of whether laryngeal carcinoma expresses hormone receptors has been a matter of interest. We adopted the fluorescent hormone conjugate method to measure the estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) in 25 patients with laryngeal cancer. Our findings indicated that in 25 samples of laryngeal cancer 48% were ER positive, and 68% were PR positive. Cells of the laryngeal cancer not only contain ER and PR but also have relationship between the presence of receptors and the degree of histologic differentiation. Low differentiated cancers are inclinable to contain low level receptors. From this initial survey it appears that the hormone receptors could play an important role in the cancer of larynx. The presence of receptors in some laryngeal carcinoma implicates that these tumors are possibly hormone sensitive.
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