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Menopause, Woman Last Period

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Menopause, Woman Last Period Menopause is a woman’s last period; it is the stage of life that occurs in the transition period for reproductive or no reproductive fertile due to the decrease of sex hormones produced by the ovaries. Menopause delimits the two phases of the climacteric, menopause premenopausal and postmenopausal women. The average age [...]

Hormone Therapy Accelerates Breast Cancer Progression And Raises Risk

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Postmenopausal women who take hormone therapy estrogen plus progestin not only have an increased risk of developing breast cancer, but also of a faster progressing one, researchers from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute reveal in an article published in the peerreviewed journal JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association...

Male menopause affects more than five million men

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While most frequently associated with womens health, agerelated hormone changes, often dubbed menopause, can occur in men as well, causing symptoms of fatigue, mood swings, decreased desire for sex, hair loss, lack of concentration and weight gain. Experts estimate that more than 5 million men are affected, yet worry the number may be considerably hig

Doctors Persist On Prescribing High-dose Menopausal Hormone Therapy

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Despite being told that lowdose menopausal hormone therapy is just as effective and less dangerous than high doses, too many American doctors continue giving their female patients high doses, which carry a considerably higher death risk, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine wrote in the journal Menopause...

New Study: Estrogen Replacement Therapy Speeds Ovarian Cancer Growth

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Estrogen therapy used by menopausal women causes a type of ovarian cancer to grow five times faster, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Menopausal estrogen replacement therapy ERT also significantly increases the likelihood of the cancer metastasizing to the lymph nodes, according to the study, which will b