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But when a 1974 study found that estrogen replacement therapy was associated with an increased risk of endometrial cancer, the manufacturers added progesterone, renamed the combination “hormone” replacement therapy, and recast it as a treatment for medical problems associated with menopause such as osteoporosis [6].
Based on its antiprogesterone activity, RU486 has been evaluated as a useful anticancer agent in organs sensitive to this hormone [ 4 ] . Although evidence was not conclusive in these studies, RU486 demonstrated a benefit to humans suffering from meningioma, breast cancer and uterine leiomyomata [ 4 ] . Several in vitro studies also demonstrated that RU486 induced antiproliferative effects against murine mammary tumors [ 5 ] as well as cultured human endometrial stromal and epithelial cells [ 6 7 ] .
Several active research programs are investigating the risk associated with serum estrogens, gonadotropins and urinary sex hormone metabolites for a variety of diseases including breast cancer [ 1 ] , endometrial cancer [ 2 ] , and osteoporosis [ 3 ] . The results of the few published studies suggest that the natural temporal variability (true variation over time, not variation due to storage or other factors) of some serum estrogens, gonadotropins and urinary sex hormone metabolites is sufficiently great that a single measurement occasion may be inadequate to ensure a reliable estimate [ 4 5 6 ] . Published intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) vary between 0.06 and 0.62 for estradiol (E 2 ) and between 0.52 and 0.69 for estrone (E 1 ) [ 4 ] . Only the percent of free E 2 and of SHBG-bound E 2 have been found to be sufficiently reliable to account for as much as 50% of the variance in the true mean ( ICC > 0.7).
Functional stage of ovaries was classified according to the endometrial morphology [ 45 ] . Ovaries and endometrial samples were obtained from hysterectomy specimens.
Examples include diffuse atypical endometrial hyperplasia, AIDS-associated lymphoid hyperplasia, helicobacter-associated gastric MALT hyperplasia, diffuse gastric intestinal metaplasia, etc.
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