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Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...t the cancer including radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy. Now at a three-day conference at the Nati...ecommend surgery along with either chemotherapy or hormonal therapy. To help in the decision-making, experts came up with their own recommendations as follo...

Sexual abuse affect health for a lifetime

...to sexual abuse but also related to stress-related hormonal alterations. It was evaluated that counseling to an extent may improve the health of those who are sexually abused early and it needs further advance research....

Old are not weak

...t fault. It may be that diet, lack of exercise, or hormonal factors contribute to a loss of muscle mass. These are all factors that can be tackled - the good news is that there appears to be no underlying deterioration....

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...in why Alzheimer’s develops later in life and that hormonal treatments for testicular cancer, which suppress t...six men with testicular cancer who were treated by hormonal supression experienced an increase in plasma amyloid levels. Plasma amyloid roughly doubled over the...

Drink milk right now

...justment for factors such as age, reproductive and hormonal factors, body mass index and alcohol consumption. However, childhood milk consumption only appeared to be protective against breast cancer among those women aged between 34 and 39, rather than those aged between 40 and 48// Women who drank more tha...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...ated whether lack of sleep can alter metabolic and hormonal functions. Professor Eve Willis, who led the study..., said: "We found that the metabolic and endocrine hormonal changes resulting from a signficant slep debt mimic many of the hallmarks of ageing.''// The Chica...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

...Administration (FDA) approved Femara as first-line hormonal treatment for advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women. At that time, an FDA advisory panel enthusiastically backed Femara based on Novartis' research comparing the drug with a generic version of tamoxifen, the gold standard treatment for advan...

Contraceptive pill to reduce PMS

...ts of menstruation such as anaemia. "Moreover, the hormonal fluctuations typical of a real menstrual cycle are...e hormones in the blood. This overrides the normal hormonal signal from the ovaries and prevents the shredding of the lining of the uterus which is the bleeding...

Anxiety likely to affect the foetus

...er is very anxious this changes her chemistry, her hormonal levels. For example cortisol,a hormone can cross the placenta and it may well affect the development of the baby's brain in the womb," she further added that every pregnant woman should take time to rest and relax....

High Altitude ‘Speeds up ageing process

...t that women age earlier at high altitudes. “These hormonal changes might have a significant effect on the lives of women living in hihg altitude areas suh as the Andes, the Alps, the Rockies, and the Himalayas.” A number of hormone systems change with age, under normal circumstances, including DHEA and DHEA...

Men happy to take contraception

...ding to researchers, Australian men's attitudes to hormonal contraception has found that an overwhelming major...would 'maybe', 'probably',or 'definitely' try male hormonal contraception. The participants were asked if they would consider daily tablets, a weekly injectio...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

... breast cancer risk. //Some evidence suggests that hormonal changes brought on by exercise may help lower the ... Relatively moderate activity, they add, may have hormonal effects that may lengthen the menstrual cycle, resulting, over a lifetime, in lower levels or less c...

Hormone Imbalance may lead to prolonged fatigue

...The HPA (hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal) axis is a hormonal system that helps the body deal with physical and psychological stress.// The end result is the production of the stress hormone cortisol by the adrenal glands. Chronic fatigue is characterized by aches, pains and overwhelming tiredness. It's cause...

Overcoming actively may help in breast cancer

...to key biological factors like immune function and hormonal levels. They found that up to 44 per cent of women experienced anxiety and depression on being diagnosed with breast cancer. And up to ten per cent even had post-traumatic stress disorder. Women who adopt a positive coping style for living with bre...

A new male contraceptive

...urned completely to normal. Since NB-DNJ is not a hormonal treatment, the sex drive of the mice was not impacted by the treatment. Few unwanted side effects were noted. Because the dose needed to induce infertility was so much lower than the standard dose given humans for Gaucher's disease, the investigators...

Stress triggers acne

...ers are more likely to suffer from acne due to the hormonal changes that are already underway. Pimples occur when excess oil accumulates around skin cells helping bacteria to thrive, resulting in redness & inflammation. Washing the skin clean with a mild cleanser, day and night, is essential in keeping away ...

Obesity risk can be reduced by eating breakfast regularly

... in the morning or at lunch. There could also be a hormonal link to these effects as insulin controls blood sugar and blood sugar level is related to how hungry or energetic a person feels. The researchers also concluded that eating whole-grain cereal each day was associated with a 15 per cent reduction in ri...

Can one get addicted to fast food?

...ack of self-control, but is most likely due to the hormonal changes caused by the fast foods, in the body, that could impair the ability to control eating. As people start gaining weight due to a steady fast food diet, they become more resistant to a brain peptide called galanin that stimulates eating// and t...

Obesity Increases Risk of Cervical Cancer

...the upper layer of skin. The researchers theorized hormonal factors, such as obesity, would affect adenocarcinomas more than squamous cell carcinomas. They put the women through testing for the human papillomavirus, calculated body mass index, and took waist-to-hip measurements. They found women with the hig...

Exercise to Prevent Early Breast Cancer

... we presume that physical activity works through a hormonal means to reduce BCIS risk, this may not be an important mechanism for women who may have a hereditary form of the disease....

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