Word: estrogen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their conclusion: what has seemed to be a single type of cancer is really two. One form can be treated best by removing the sources of female hormones (ovaries and sometimes adrenals) and perhaps by giving male hormones; the second requires the opposite treatment-leaving the estrogen sources intact, perhaps even giving extra estrogens and cortisone. To type a patient's cancer and decide whether the ovaries should be removed, the doctors have only to trace her pattern of calcium excretion through a single menstrual cycle...