When scientists gave mice special hormone treatments, the tissue samples from those mice grew bigger and heavier compared to tissue from mice that didn't get the treatment. This shows hormones can...

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Steroid hormones stimulate human prostate cancer progression and metastasis

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2006 May 1

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Steroid hormones stimulate human prostate cancer progression and metastasis

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DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21614

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