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[4-¹⁴C]Cholesterol was cleaved to pregnenolone and progesterone by a washed particulate fraction isolated from involved lymph nodes obtained from a radical mastectomy specimen. Difficulties were experienced in isolating subcellular fractions from primary breast tumours and normal breast tissue. However, an acetone powder fraction, obtained from normal tissue derived from a radical mastectomy specimen, yielded pregnenolone from [4-¹⁴C]cholesterol.

[7-³H]17-Hydroxyprogesterone was converted to androstenedione and to 17,20-dihydroxypregn-4-en-3-one and its 17,20β-epimer by homogenates of secondary breast carcinoma tissue and normal breast tissue obtained from radical mastectomy specimens. These results, in conjunction with those obtained previously (Adams & Wong, 1968a), show that human breast carcinoma tissue contains the enzymes necessary to convert cholesterol to androgens and oestrogens.