The endocrine changes of cancer patients on initial confirmed diagnosis and during chemotherapy havebeen gradually realized and clarified, as well as the dependences of different tumors on corresponding hormones. The ...The endocrine changes of cancer patients on initial confirmed diagnosis and during chemotherapy havebeen gradually realized and clarified, as well as the dependences of different tumors on corresponding hormones. The prevalent endocrinotherapy suppresses tumor progression through downregulating dependent hormone level or completely inhibitting its combination with receptors. Because of the different and even antagonistic mechanisms, endocrinotherapy should not be used with chemotherapy at the same time, or it will reduce the chemotherapeutic efficacy, which is a widely accepted principle in clinic.展开更多
文摘The endocrine changes of cancer patients on initial confirmed diagnosis and during chemotherapy havebeen gradually realized and clarified, as well as the dependences of different tumors on corresponding hormones. The prevalent endocrinotherapy suppresses tumor progression through downregulating dependent hormone level or completely inhibitting its combination with receptors. Because of the different and even antagonistic mechanisms, endocrinotherapy should not be used with chemotherapy at the same time, or it will reduce the chemotherapeutic efficacy, which is a widely accepted principle in clinic.
