[Oestradiol receptors in endometrial carcinomas (author's transl)].

Tissue samples taken from endometrial carcinomas as well as from normal and hyperplastic endometria were tested for oestradiol receptors. Roughly one and the same amount of receptors was recordable from all three tissue groups. In premenopausal women, receptor levels were lowest in the advanced phase of secretion. All tumour patients so far have survived without recurrence. Therefore, no correlation has been established, as yet, between receptor level and prognosis, in a way similar to what has been found in cases of mammary carcinoma.