Culturing breast tumor cells in the presence of hormones
- Resource Type
- Authors
- R. W. Raven; N. Bishun; D. C. Williams; J. Mills
- Source
- Journal of Surgical Oncology. 6:203-210
- Subject
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Adenocarcinoma, Scirrhous
Hydrocortisone
Cell Survival
Plant tissue culture
Breast Neoplasms
Tumor cells
In Vitro Techniques
Breast tumor
Methods
Humans
Insulin
Medicine
Testosterone
Cells, Cultured
Progesterone
Estradiol
business.industry
Carcinoma
Epithelial Cells
General Medicine
Fibroblasts
Hormones
Culture Media
Oncology
Female
Surgery
business
Human breast
Hormone
- Language
- ISSN
- 1096-9098
0022-4790
A tissue culture technique for culturing human breast tumor cells was utilized to invesitgate the response of these cells to various hormones. Due to the small number of tumors investigated, no definite pattern of response was evident. However, the methods described may provide information which can be of useful clinical importance.