[The functional status of the hypophyseal-thyroid and hypophyseal-adrenal systems in breast cancer patients taking into account their exposure to the factors of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].

Breast cancer patients residing in those territories controllable because of Chernobyl APP accident demonstrated significant disturbances in functional state of hypophyseal-thyroid and pituitary-adrenal axes, with central regulatory mechanisms being affected to the greatest extent. The above disturbances may arouse augmentation of prolactin secretion, which fact tends to aggravate the morbus course worsening the prognosis as well as leading to a variety of disorder in the reproductive system.