title: An analysis of serum estradiol and serum progesterone in postmenopausal women of karachi suffering from breast cancer.
abstract: The cancer patients (39) and control (12) were subjected to postmenopausal hormonal evaluation in which serum estradiol and serum progesterone values were found to be 54.56 +/- 10.20 pg/ml as compared to 18.66 +/- 6.31 pg/ml and 0.170 +/- 0.01 ng/ml as compared to 0.229 +/- 0.01 ng/ml respectively. Consequently it was inferred that in cancer postmenopausal patients when serum estradiol level increases the serum progesterone level decrease and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan.
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ahmed
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D004958:Estradiol; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017698:Postmenopause / Q000097:blood; D011374:Progesterone
chemical_list: D011374:Progesterone; D004958:Estradiol