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Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1978 May; 5(5): 425–430.
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The effect of low dose carbidopa/levodopa on prolactin and growth hormone concentrations in patients with breast cancer and in benign breast tumours.
M K Jones, I D Ramsay, and P G Jenner
Abstract
1 Low doses of carbidopa/levodopa (12.5 mg 1-alpha-methyl-dopahydrazine, 125 mg levodopa) were administered orally to 29 patients with tumours of the breast (16 with breast cancer, 13 with benign breast disease). 2 Plasma dopa response curves were similar in all the patients studied. 3 Prolactin and growth hormone showed similar responses to carbidopa/levodopa irrespective of age or diagnosis. 4 Prolactin showed an unusual reponse in four patients which has not previously been recorded.
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