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 …
New Findings Show (HRT) Almost Doubles Breast Cancer Death Risk
October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Where Are My Ruby Slippers? A Discussion of Hormone Therapy
October 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Healthy Times Newspaper
October 7, 2010
By Lisa Lindley, M.D., FACOG
Let’s talk about hormone therapy. For years we thought hormones were the ruby slippers, the magic cure, and that everyone should be on them forever. Then in 2002, there was the WHI (Women’s Health Initiative) study. Publication of its data created a controversy over hormone therapy that continues today. There was a barrage of media coverage, filled with misinformation. Based on that, women and even many physicians decided that not only were hormones not the ruby slippers, they were poison apples. Women began throwing their hormones away, resigned to suffer the consequences. And suffer they did!
Menopause Health: Hormone Replacement Therapy Facts
October 3, 2010 By 4 Comments
Women, Children and the Family
October 3, 2010
Are you debating hormone replacement therapy? If so, you’re not alone. According to the US Census Bureau, there were an estimated 78.2 million baby boomers, as of July 1, 2005, and over 47 million of them are women experiencing discomfort from menstruation to menopause, and even loss of libido.
HRT and the Pill lead to breast cancer
October 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
The Times of India
September 30, 2010
Synthetic sex hormones called progestins used in hormone replacement therapy, HRT, and in contraceptives can increase the risk of breast cancers, say experts.
And now medical researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna have identified a key mechanism that allows these synthetic sex hormones to directly affect mammary cells.
Women’s Brains on Steroids – Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure
September 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure
Scientific American
By Craig H. Kinsley and Elizabeth A. Meyer September 28, 2010
It seems that weekly we hear about some professional athlete who sullies himself and his sport through abuse of steroids. The melodrama unfolds, careers and statistics are brought low and asterisked, and everyone bemoans another fallen competitor. Yet there are millions of cases of steroid use that occur daily with barely a second thought: Millions of women take birth control pills, blithely unaware that their effects may be subtly seeping into and modulating brain structure and activity.
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.
Estrogen-only therapy may not up lung cancer deaths
August 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Reuters
By Frederik Joelving
NEW YORK | Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:57pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who use estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy don’t appear to be at increased risk of dying from lung cancer.
That’s according to a new analysis of earlier data from postmenopausal women who had had their uterus removed (hysterectomy).
How Progestins in HRT Impact Risk of Breast Cancer
August 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
EmaxHealth
Submitted by Deborah Mitchell on 2010-08-11
The risk of breast cancer associated with the use of synthetic progesterone known as progestins has been a topic of much controversy and concern for many years. Now a new study reports on the impact of progestins on breast cancer in animals models.
This is another post about menstruation. Sorry. But not too sorry.
July 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Impalpable Earth & Unattainable Sky
July 7, 2010
I was relaying the ins and outs of my day to my mother, when I got to the part about having to admit to my professor that no, I was not running a fever or suffering from some contagious disease–my problems were probably menstruation-related.
My mother’s response? “You didn’t actually say that, did you?” (“That” being “I think it’s menstrual-related.”)
Right. So, after an afternoon spent telling myself, “No, it’s okay, he asked about your health, you don’t have to be embarrassed,” it turns out that, yes, actually, I should be embarrassed about it.
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