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A Study of Prostatic Cancer Patients

GEORGE F. MEISSNER, M.D.; CONSTANCE M. MOEHRING, B.S.

Arch Intern Med. 1962;110(4):467-471.

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Prostatic cancer patients were studied from the following aspects: (1) periodic lipid determinations, (2) gross and microscopic study of coronary arteries and aortae in a small number of autopsied cases, (3) retrospective review of 100 autopsy records of prostatic cancer patients, and (4) screening tests of blood coagulation in selected cases.

Except for serum lipid changes as reported by many investigators^1,2 no unequivocal effect on arteries or blood coagulation was demonstrated which could be ascribed to estrogen therapy.

Materials and Methods

A. Serum lipids^3-6 were determined in a group of 64 presumably healthy male subjects from 60-90 years of age actively employed in the hospital (Table). In 25 subjects the "individual biologic variation" was determined as the standard deviation of the mean obtained by 4 lipid determinations (in the same individual) several weeks to months apart; the average value multiplied by 3⁷ was considered an individual's biologic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PROVIDENCE, R.I.

From the Institute of Pathology, Rhode Island Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 23, 1962; accepted June 25.

This study was supported by grants of the Rhode Island Heart Association and was presented in part at the American Heart Association meetings, October, 1960.

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