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And the Bad News about Hormone Therapies Continues to Accumulate…

October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Society for Menstrual Cycle Research

re: Cycling

October 21st, 2010 by Heather Dillaway

Yes, the hormone therapies prescribed for women in perimenopause and beyond have already been suspect. Especially after the initial Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial results in 2002 (but even before that), researchers documented the health risks associated with the use of hormones during menopause, especially combination hormone therapies (therapies including estrogen plus progesterone, such as Prempro). SMCR’s Jerilynn Prior has done plenty of work on this as has SMCR’s Paula Derry, and WHI researchers and spokespeople have had to come out about many of the health risks as well.

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Drug companies lied to women about HRT risks for nine years

October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

WDDTY What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You 20 October 2010 Drug companies have tried for nearly a decade to downplay the breast cancer risks of their HRT treatment and so keep sales up – but this week their lies and spin have been uncovered. Nine years ago, research discovered that the drugs caused breast cancer – Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Big Pharma Watch, Breast Cancer, Breast Health, Cancer, Estrogen, FDA Failure To Protect, Heart Health, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hormones, HRT, HRT Side Effects, Menopause, Peri-Menopause, Post Menopausal Women, Synthetic Hormones, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: , , , , ,

New Findings Show (HRT) Almost Doubles Breast Cancer Death Risk

October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Top News U.S.

October 20, 2010
Amit Pathania

Women’s Health Initiative recently released new findings suggesting that Prempro hormone replacement therapy almost doubles the death risk from breast cancer.

Filed Under: Big Pharma Watch, Breast Cancer, Breast Health, Cancer, Clinical Trials, FDA Failure To Protect, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hormones, HRT, Menopause, Menstrual Cycle, Peri-Menopause, Post Menopausal Women, Synthetic Hormones, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Study: Hormone Therapy Leads to More Advanced Breast Cancer

October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

PBS NEWSHOUR

HEALTH — October 19, 2010 at 4:05 PM EDT

By: Lea Winerman

Eight years ago, a major nationwide study found that post-menopausal women who took long-term hormone replacement therapy were more likely to develop breast cancer, heart disease and stroke than women who didn’t.

Now, a follow-up study released Tuesday finds that the breast cancers those women developed were, on average, more advanced and possibly more deadly than the cancers developed by women who did not take hormone therapy.

Filed Under: Breast Cancer, Breast Health, Cancer, Estrogen, Hormone Cycles, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hormones, HRT, HRT Side Effects, Menopause, Menstrual Suppression, Peri-Menopause, Pharmaceuticals, Post Menopausal Women, Progesterone, Synthetic Hormones, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: , , , , ,

Cervical Cancer Vaccine May Stop Breast Cancer

October 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Health Guide

Published: Oct 6th, 2010 |

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have discovered that the HPV vaccine may be effective in preventing breast cancer, which affects over a million women a year worldwide.

In a new article published in the British Journal of Cancer, the experts reveal that they conducted studies of breast cells and found that there were several strains of HPV present which are known to have a high risk of initiating cancer of the cervix.

Filed Under: Breast Health, Cancer, Cervarix, Cervical Cancer, Gardasil/Silgard, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, HPV, Human Papillomavirus, Mothers & Daughters, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health Tagged With: , , , , , ,

More evidence hormone therapy can muddy mammograms

August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Reuters

By Amy Norton

NEW YORK | Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:21pm EDT

(Reuters Health) – Hormone replacement therapy after menopause may interfere with the accuracy of mammograms used to screen for breast cancer — and the risk may be greater with hormones delivered by patch or injection compared with pills, a new study finds.

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End Breast Ironing in Cameroon

August 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Care 2

August 29, 2010

* Target: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
* Sponsored by: Care2.com

In a desperate attempt to prevent sexual assault and teen pregnancy, Cameroonian mothers are literally ironing their daughters’ breasts with hot stones to make them less attractive.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Birth Control, Breast Health, Menstrual Suppression, Mothers & Daughters, Sexual Health, Women's History, Women's Politics Tagged With: , ,

Breast cancer cells control multiple genes in response to estrogen

July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Hindu.com Washington July 21, 2010 Breast cancer cells regulate many genes at once in response to the hormone estrogen, resulting in the silencing of 14 genes at one time. Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Centre provide the first evidence that cells can regulate many genes at once by looping their DNA, Continue Reading …

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Biobehavioral, Immune, and Health Benefits following Recurrence for Psychological Intervention Participants

July 22, 2010 By 1 Comment

Clinical Cancer Research

July 2010
Abstract

Purpose: A clinical trial was designed to test the hypothesis that a psychological intervention could reduce the risk of cancer recurrence. Newly diagnosed regional breast cancer patients (n = 227) were randomized to the intervention-with-assessment or the assessment-only arm.

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Live without stress, and breast cancer doesn’t come back, study discovers

July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

WDDTY
What doctors Don’t Tell You
16 July 2010

Breast cancer doesn’t come back if you can live a life without stress. A happy woman has a stronger immune system that can beat cancer, even if she has had several episodes of the disease in the past, a new study has discovered.

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