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Hormone pills may make lung cancer more deadly

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests.


Tips on hormone use, coping with menopause

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- What to do if menopause makes you miserable?


Low-income breast cancer patients skipping hormonal therapy, increasing their risks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many low-income women are failing to take the hormonal therapy prescribed as part of their breast cancer treatment, possibly lowering their survival rates, according to a study led by a researcher in the Duke Comprehensive ...


Big US study will test vitamin D, fish oil

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Two of the most popular and promising dietary supplements - vitamin D and fish oil - will be tested in a large, government-sponsored study to see whether either nutrient can lower a healthy person's risk of getting cancer, ...


Glaxo seeks OK to expand breast cancer drug use

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- GlaxoSmithKline PLC on Wednesday applied for approval in the U.S. and Europe to sell an existing breast-cancer drug as a first-line treatment.


More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University ...


New evidence of hormone therapy causing breast cancer, professor says

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Postmenopausal women who take combined estrogen plus progestin menopausal hormone therapy for at least five years double their annual risk of breast cancer, according to new analyses from a major study that clearly establishes ...


Migraines associated with lower risk of breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Women who suffer from migraines may take at least some comfort in a recent, first-of-its-kind study that suggests a history of such headaches is associated with a significantly lower risk of breast cancer. Christopher I. ...


'Bioidenticals' not FDA-approved, contain estrogen

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Miserable in menopause, Elizabeth Alsgaard pondered an awful choice: Drenching hot flashes or hormone therapies that might raise the risk of cancer. What former actress Suzanne Somers raved about held much more appeal ...


Prostate cancer patients on hormone therapy at increased risk for various heart diseases

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research has found that hormone therapy used to treat men with advanced prostate cancer is associated with an increased chance of developing various heart problems. Some choices of therapy appear, however, to be less ...


The narrow line between love and jealousy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, the "love hormone", which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy ...


Decline in breast cancer: Not just because of hormone therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Between 2002 and 2003, American women experienced a 7 percent decline in breast cancer incidence, which scientists attribute to the publicity surrounding results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI).


Breast cancer rates fall steeply in women who quit combination hormones, follow-up shows

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Breast-cancer rates fell steeply and swiftly among postmenopausal women who quit combination hormones in 2002 after warnings about its potential hazards.


Some antidepressants may risk breast cancer return

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created May 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Breast cancer survivors risk having their disease come back if they use certain antidepressants while also taking the cancer prevention drug tamoxifen, worrisome new research shows.


Purification and dilution reduce risk of fish being injured by hormone-disrupting compounds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 21, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a dissertation at the Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM), Stockholm University, Maria Pettersson has examined whether purified wastewater from municipal purification plants and cellulose factories in Sweden ...