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In a study with mice, giving them certain hormones caused cancer cells to spread to other parts of the body like the lungs and liver, but mice that didn't get the hormones didn't have this spread.
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Steroid hormones stimulate human prostate cancer progression and metastasis
Cross-Sectional Study
Animal
2006 May 1The study gave mice the same hormone treatment described in the claim and found cancer spread only in those treated mice, exactly as the claim says.
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