Ovarian tumors steroid

Young RH, Scully RE (2002). Sex cord stromal, steroid cell, and other ovarian tumors. In Kurman RJ (ed) Blaustein s pathology of the female genital tract. Springer Verlag, New York, pp 903-966... 

Breast, prostate, testicular, and ovarian cancers are all considered hormonal malignancies. Sex hormones are known to affect the initiation or progression of these malignancies. However, all kallikreins are under sex steroid hormonal regulation. Taken together, kallikreins may represent downstream targets by which hormones affect the initiation or progression of such tumors. 

Deavers MT, Malpica A, Ordonez NG, et al. Ovarian steroid cell tumors An immunohistochemical study including a comparison of calretinin with inhibin. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2003 22 162-167. 

Breast and ovarian cancer share responsiveness to steroid hormones, and incidence of the vast majority of tumors in the epithelial rather than the stromal component. In addition, these diseases appear to share etiologic factors Women with one kind of tumor have an increased risk of developing the other type of tumor. Whereas normal ovarian tissue does not overexpress ErbB-... 

The aim of this assay is to evaluate the expression of steroid receptors (receptor status) in hormone-dependent tumors, since these receptors (estrogen, progesterone and androgen receptors) are essential for the proliferation and differentiation of tumors derived from hormone-dependent tissues such as breast, ovarian and uterine tissue. 

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