[Estrogen receptor status of breast cancer patients].

Reported in this paper are studies conducted into oestrogen receptor levels of 103 patients with mammary carcinoma, with the dextran-carbon method being used. The findings thus recorded are discussed for their clinical relevance. Recorded were correlations between quantitative oestrogen receptor levels, on the one hand, and menopausal status, grading, histological typing, and tumour size, on the other.