Breast Cancer

Progestins Stimulate Growth Factor Production In Cancer Cells

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 7th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - New research suggests progestins, natural or synthetic hormones that act like progesterone, cause some breast cancer cells to produce a growth factor associated with tumor growth and progression.

In recent years, researchers have begun to look at new ways to fight cancer by stopping the growth of new blood vessels that supply tumors with nourishment. They have identified one growth factor in particular, VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), that sends out strong signals encouraging the formation of these blood vessels.

According to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in...

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