Estetrol proven to have an estrogen antagonistic effect on breast tumour tissue
Pantarhei Bioscience study findings demonstrate the disappearance of breast tumours during treatment with the human fetal estrogen Estetrol
Pantarhei Bioscience is developing E4 for several Women’s Health applications amongst other hormone replacement therapy (HRT), oral contraception, osteoporosis, menstrual migraine and estrogen hormone sensitive cancers.
“Our results in the DMBA rat model for mammary tumour growth show that E4 prevents tumor initiation by DMBA and inhibits the growth of existing DMBA-induced tumors” concluded Monique Visser, PhD., principal scientist of the project and Program Director Estetrol at PRB. “The rat DMBA model is a mammary tumour model and the preferred tool to assess the potential in vivo prophylactic and therapeutic effects of new drugs in breast cancer.”
She added : “One particularly striking finding was the fact that E4 was found to have an estrogen antagonistic effect on breast tumour tissue, especially surprising since other estrogenic hormones used in HRT and in contraception, such as Estradiol (E2) and Ethinylestradiol (EE), are known to have a stimulatory effect on breast cancer growth”.
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