thesis
Oestrogen receptors and prolactin in rat mammary tumour development
- Publication date
- 1 January 1980
- Publisher
- Mammary cancer has been a challenge to researchers for
many years, because of the continuous menace of this disease
to (wo)mankind. Since it is difficult to study the mechanism
of mammary gland carcinogenesis experimentally in the human,
model systems had to be devised. "Spontaneous" mammary
tumours in rats are quite rare, or occur only after a very
long period (Burek & Hollander, 1977; Burek, 1978). Therefore,
induction of tumours has been used to obtain large
amounts of tumour tissue. Two tumour model systems which are
relevant to the work presented in this thesis will be
described in some detail.