Abstract
Ectopic production of several peptide hormones in patients with lung cancer has been described repeatedly in recent years. Hormones which are frequently elevated in the sera of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) at diagnosis are summarized in Table 1.
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Havemann, K., Holle, R., Gropp, C. (1985). Prospective Multicenter Study of Hormone Markers in Small Cell Lung Cancer. In: Havemann, K., Sorenson, G., Gropp, C. (eds) Peptide Hormones in Lung Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82533-0_22
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