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MAURICE BRUGER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;72(1):108-114.

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In recent years, there has been an unusual amount of conjecture as to the significance of the configurational similarity of the sex hormones, bile acids, vitamin D, cholesterol and the carcinogenic polycyclic hydrocarbons. Much speculation has been devoted particularly to the chemical relationship between the sex hormones and carcinogenic principles in the etiology of cancer. Sobotka¹ quoted Cook, who stated that "the cell proliferation which characterizes the estrous state is in some respects reminiscent of the early stages of malignant growth," and Sobotka further conjectured that, while biodehydrogenation of sterols or bile acids may be the physiologic method for the production of the sex hormones, further dehydrogenation by a faulty mechanism may give rise to tumor-stimulating substances.

Sobotka and Bloch² were unable to find any positive chemical or biologic evidence for the presence of carcinogenic hydrocarbons in large quantities of pooled urine from patients with cancer. However, they . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK; With the Technical Assistance of SYLVIA B. EHRLICH, B.S.

From the Medical Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, Columbia University.

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