E. J. Pavlik, ed. Estrogens, progestins and their antagonists. - Vol. 2. Functions and mechanisms of action. - Boston, Basel, Berlin: Bikhauser, 1996 .-- 632 p.

The book under review is part of a lengthy and interesting series for specialists, published by the Birkhauser Publishing House and having the common title Hormones in Normal and Pathological Conditions. The first volume of the book, a review of which is published in Issue 3 of the journal “Oncology Issues” for 1997, deals mainly with the degree of oncological risk of estrogen replacement therapy in menopause, about the not always unambiguous anticarcinogenic properties of phytoestrogens and food indoles, and about modern approaches to hormone therapy for prostate cancer, etc., i.e., mainly about the problems of oncological endocrinology. The 2nd volume of this publication, as its editor E. Pavlik writes in the introduction to the book, is devoted to the physiological and molecular mechanisms of action of estrogens, progestins and their antagonists, and is primarily focused on the discussion of the effect of various and often even opposite effects these compounds in different cells and tissues. A highly qualified team of authors, assembled by the editor, was able to ensure the implementation of this difficult and responsible task.