as part of a programme to assess the para-endocrine behaviour of human infiltrating ductal breast carcinoma among chinese women , this study was designed to compare ( mann-whitney u test ) the immunoreactive mammary tumour tissue concentrations of follicle stimulating hormone ( fsh ) , luteinizing hormone ( lh ) , human chorionic gonadotrophin ( beta-hcg ) and prolaction ( prl ) at stages i ( n = 9 ) , ii ( n = 12 ) and iii ( n = 7 ) with that of normal breast tissue ( n = 8 ) .
C0018062
human chorionic gonadotrophin
C0106132
beta-hcg