Word: estrogenic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than 100,000 sniff tests to determine changes in the ability of volunteers to detect a chemical called furfural, a scent found in cloves and cinnamon. One clear result: women have the greatest ability to detect the odor midway in their menstrual cycle, presumably because of a correlation between estrogen in the body and sensitivity at the nose...
Doctors have been treating breast cancer patients with tamoxifen, a drug used in very advanced cases, at an earlier stage of the disease. The theory: many if not most breast cancers are linked with the hormone estrogen. Tamoxifen is an antiestrogen agent that has shown a no table ability to halt the growth of estrogen-connected tumors...
...month study, the doctors monitored 296 women up to age 76 who had undergone mastectomies. From tissue samples physicians found that three-quarters of the women had estrogen-linked tumors. These patients, as well as the others whose cancers were not connected with the hormone, were divided into three treatment groups: one was given a combination of drugs known as CMF; another CMF and tamoxifen; and the third CMF, tamoxifen and BCG (which is designed to bolster the immune system...
...estrogen group, the relapse rate was 40% in those treated with CMF alone. But, remarkably, among women who had also been given tamoxifen, cancer reappeared in only about 10% of the cases...
...overall drop is attributable to the decline in use of estrogen over the last three years, Hershel said...