Women of a healthy weight are more likely than obese women to get breast cancer when using hormone replacement therapy to alleviate menopause symptoms, a study claims.
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Study Finds Important Differences in the Way Clinicians Understand and Treat Early Menopause After Breast Cancer
Hormonal treatment for breast cancer causes menopause in over 80% of women in the first year of therapy, but now new research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Climacteric, has found that how these women are diagnosed and treated for menopausal symptoms can vary substantially according to which type of doctor a woman sees.
Judge Grants Summary Judgment to Wyeth in HRT Breast Cancer Case
A federal judge in Philadelphia has granted summary judgment to Wyeth. Pharmaceuticals and other drug companies named in a products liability complaint by a Nevada woman who alleged her breast cancer was caused by hormone replacement therapy products manufactured by the defendants.
Multiple Babies with IVF May Up Breast Ca Risk
Breast cancer risk is modestly higher for women with twins, triplets, or more via in vitro fertilization (IVF), a population-based study showed, although it also suggested the fertility treatment may not be at fault.
Those at Risk of Breast Cancer are Urged to Take a Daily Pill with Alarming Side Effects
You’ve been offered a drug that protects you from life-threatening disease, but the side-effects are unbearable. What do you do? This was the dilemma that Carly Gibson faced as she recovered from breast cancer, after a shock diagnosis aged just 29.
Fertility Care Would Be Covered Under California Bill
When Alice Crisci was diagnosed at age 31 with an aggressive form of breast cancer, she paid to have her eggs harvested as part of a costly procedure before undergoing cancer treatment.
Thousands Rally to Support Medical Research Funding
Several thousand people gathered in Washington on Monday to push Congress to restore more than $2 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health, warning that without the money, advances in areas such as breast cancer research may be lost.
Contraception Important to Women with Cancer
Contraception is important to women receiving treatment for cancer, but women with breast cancer may not receive the same type or degree of counseling given to women with other types of malignancy.
Breast cancer quadruples in 15 years
The number of Korean women diagnosed with breast cancer quadrupled over the last 15 years due to a more westernized lifestyle and lower birth and breastfeeding rates, health experts said.
According to a report by the Korea Breast Cancer Society, the number of patients with the disease surged to 16,398 in 2010 from 3,801 in 1996. The number of breast cancer patients in the population per 100,000 people also jumped to 67.2 in 2010 from 16.7 in 1996, it added. Read full article.
Sex Problems Common With Breast Cancer Drugs
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women treated with hormone-blocking drugs to stave off breast cancer recurrences are often dissatisfied with their sex lives, a new study from Sweden has found.
More than half of older women treated with so-called aromatase inhibitors said sex was almost always painful and they frequently had “insufficient lubrication,” researchers reported in the journal Menopause. Read full article.