PMID: 9161806Feb 1, 1997Paper

Dual role of oestrogens as hormones and pro-carcinogens: tumour initiation by metabolic activation of oestrogens

European Journal of Cancer Prevention : the Official Journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP)
J G Liehr

Abstract

Epidemiological evidence increasingly points to exogenous or endogenous oestrogens as a risk factor for breast cancer. However, it is unlikely that induction of oestrogen-dependent tumour growth is the sole contribution of oestrogens to tumour development in the mammary gland, because oestrogen receptors are barely detectable in normal mammary epithelial cells. In this review, I examine a mechanism for mammary carcinogenesis, which emphasizes tumour initiation by metabolic activation of oestrogens in combination with cell transformation and growth stimulation by oestrogen receptor-mediated processes. Catecholestrogen metabolites are capable of metabolic redox cycling between quinone and hydroquinone forms, a mechanism of free radical generation. Several types of direct and indirect free radical-mediated DNA damage are induced by oestrogens in vitro and in vivo, such as DNA single strand breaks, 8-hydroxylation of guanine bases, and DNA adduct formation by malondialdehyde, a decomposition product of free radical-induced lipid peroxides. The substrate for redox cycling and free radical generation may be 4-hydroxoestradiol, because this metabolite is formed from oestradiol by a specific oestrogen 4-hydroxylase detected in several ...Continue Reading

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