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Estrogen therapy for hot flushes

...idered first line treatment for women experiencing menopausal hot flushes and bleeding. The June issue of Fertil... is as effective as high-dose estrogen in treating menopausal symptoms. Low-doses are actually are more effective in stopping the irregular bleeding.// Dr....

Aromatase Inhibitors drug Femara after Tamoxifen therapy protects from breast cancer recurrence

...er// in women. Breast cancer mostly occurs in post menopausal women and various risk factors are attributed for ...years of Tamoxifen therapy is recommended for post menopausal women. Tamoxifen therapy is recommended only for 5 years as studies in which tamoxifen given for mor...

Familial Breast cancer without gene mutation not found to cause ovarian cancer.

...breast cancer, smoking, late first child birth and menopausal status. Ovarian cancer is also the leading cause of gynecological cancer deaths. Women should be aware of the risk of cancer and should do early assessment for cancer detection, apart from BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes other genes may also pose a risk for c...

Soy protein not only for women’s health but for men’s to.

...posed to be extra beneficial for women in the Post menopausal period but now men have a reason to cheer about! Soy protein has been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer. According to a recent meta-analysis conducted jointly by researchers from Washington University and The Solae Company, men who regula...

Soy Protein Not Only For Women’s Health But For Men’s To

...posed to be extra beneficial for women in the Post menopausal period but now men have a reason to cheer about! Soy protein has been shown to reduce the risk of prostate cancer. According to a recent meta-analysis conducted jointly by researchers from Washington University and The Solae Company, men who regula...

MRI as a diagnostic tool for breast cancer

...raphy and breast MRI. Variables evaluated included menopausal status and radiographic findings. Of the 89 women in the study, 69 were perimenopausal or postmenopausal and 20 were premenopausal at the time of diagnosis. The malignant lesion was identified on mammography and MRI for a majority of patients. One th...

Drugs Used In Osteoporosis Can Help Prevent Periodontal Bone Loss

...te, Leena Bahl Palomo, D.D.S and M.S.D, tracked 60 menopausal women who had visited University Hospitals of Cleveland for osteoporosis and who had also visited the Case dental clinics. Nabil Bissada, chair and professor // of Case's department of Periodontology; and James Liu, chair of the department of obstetr...

India Needs To Pay More Attention To Detecting Cancer

...ncy at around 33 years, ensuring the well being of menopausal women is an essential public health concern.' She...ne of their studies, they found that 21% of the of menopausal women in Italy have, or have had, cancer as compared to only 1.3% of non menopausal women. Organize...

Fewer Breast Cancer Patients to Get Chemo

... instance, as many as three-fourths of women after menopausal have tumors fueled by estrogen, called ER-positive disease. In these cases, drugs that block this hormone, like tomoxifen and aromatase inhibitors, a new class of medications can successfully combat those cancers — whether or not they have spread to ...

Femara: The Wonder Drug to Prevent Relapse of Breast Cancer.

...f patients suffering from breast cancer among post menopausal women//. Various studies have been done before t...rolling the recurrence of breast cancer among post menopausal women. This drug has to be given in the initial therapy after surgery instead of Tamoxifen. This d...

Raw Vegan Diet Promises Lightweight, Healthy Bones

...food vegans is marked contrast to that observed in menopausal women who have reduced bone mass, increased fracture, osteoporosis risk and high levels of inflammatory markers in their blood (cytokines). More studies are clearly indicated to better understand the risk-benefit ratio associated with a raw vegan die...

Early HRT Can Protect Women Against Heart Diseases

...oke or heart diseases is also lower among recently menopausal women. Where some women are concerned, arteriosclerosis may be delayed by Estrogen. The risk concerning heart diseases can also be lowered by reducing the risk factors which lead to it. Life style has an important role to play in this. Earlier report...

First Exclusive Women’s Clinic Launched in Chennai By Apollo Hospita

... maternal and child health, including prenatal and menopausal care. Furthermore, the main target of the establishment would be targeted at spreading health awareness and training classes for women. A chest pain clinic with an ambulance facility would also become functional soon. It has been further planned to...

Menopause in Women May Cause Depression

...ers argue in favor of aggressive treatment of both menopausal symptoms and depression symptoms occurring during the transition to menopause. "There is a tendency to dismiss symptoms of depression as part and parcel of this transition, but they shouldn't be discounted," Cohen said. (Source:IANS)...

Confusion Prevails Over the Risk and Benefits of Hormone Therapy

...rogestin. It was mainly prescribed for women treat menopausal symptoms//. It was originally prescribed to quell ...trasts with the higher risk of breast cancer among menopausal women taking estrogen plus progestin which is a combination designed to protect against uterine canc...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Reduce Heart attacks On Woman Under 60

...h or without progesterone) in their 50s to relieve menopausal symptoms like hot flashes, their risk of heart attacks or cardiac death fell by 32 percent compared with those receiving a placebo or no treatment. They also found that for women over the age of 60, HRT increased the risk of heart attacks in the firs...

Dry Eye Is A Symptom Of Menopause

...men’s Health Research, revealed that 62 percent of menopausal and peri-menopausal women reported that they experience dry eye symptoms. Yet, only 16 percent of the women experiencing dry eye symptoms knew that dry eye is linked to menopause. The survey, conducted in March, polled 304 women in menopause and peri...

Women Afflicted With Dry Eyes As They Approach Menopause

...men's Health Research has found that 62 percent of menopausal and perimenopausal women suffer from dry eye.// This symptom occurs more in women than in men and is directly linked to the hormonal imbalances in menopause. Some of the changes that occur are like burning, itching or scratchiness, of the eyes, bl...

Non Hormonal Therapies for Menopause Not Proved to be Effective

... use of nonhormonal therapies for the treatment of menopausal hot flashes, have been subjected to a meta analysi...Hot flashes are the most common symptom related to menopausal transition. They are experienced by more than 50 percent of menopausal women, can persist for severa...

Breast Cancer Mortality Rate is Higher Among Black Women

...nd out if they correlate with factors such as age, menopausal status and race.' But microarray analysis requires freshly frozen tumor tissue specimens, and the tissue available from the CBCS was collected between 1993 and 2001. Fortunately, the CBCS had many tumor tissue samples in blocks of paraffin. The t...

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