News tagged with estrogen therapy
Breast cancer type linked to paternal cancer
The risk of breast cancer is increased by genetic and lifestyle factors such as the inherited BRCA2 gene, age of having first child, or use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). New research published in BioMed Central's ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Combo hormone therapy has increased breast cancer risk over estrogen alone
The debate about using menopausal hormone therapies to relieve symptoms in post-menopausal women has been ongoing. Is the combination therapy of estrogen and progestin better or worse than just giving women estrogen alone? ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Breast tenderness in women getting combo hormone therapy associated with increase in breast density
Post-menopausal women who experience new onset breast tenderness after starting combination hormone therapy may have an increased risk of breast cancer compared to women who don't experience breast tenderness, a study by ...
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Higher estrogen production in the breast could confer greater cancer risk than thought
Could some women who naturally produce excess aromatase in their breasts have an increased risk of developing breast cancer? Results of a new animal study suggests that may be the case, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi ...
Aug 12, 2011 |
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False negative tests in breast cancer may lead to wrong drug choice
A team of Yale Cancer Center researchers has confirmed that between 10-20% of breast cancers classified as Estrogen Receptor (ER) negative are really positive. Understanding when and why breast cancers may be misclassified ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Emerging trends in radiation therapy for women over 70 with early stage breast cancer
Patterns of radiation usage in breast conserving therapy for women 70 years and older with stage I breast cancer are changing: more women are opting for radioactive implants and those with estrogen positive tumors are opting ...
Jun 02, 2011 |
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New study suggests link between chronic estrogen exposure and high blood pressure
For many years doctors believed the estrogen women consumed in the form of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills was good for their patients' hearts. Recent studies however have shown that long-term ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Estrogen linked with lower dementia risk when taken in middle age, higher risk later in life
Estrogen therapy taken around the time of menopause was associated with a lowered risk of dementia in old age, but when taken in late life was linked with an increased dementia risk, according to a study led by a physician ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Researchers unlock how progesterone increases breast cancer risk
Researchers have identified how the hormones progesterone and estrogen interact to increase cell growth in normal mammary cells and mammary cancers, a novel finding that may explain why postmenopausal women receiving hormone ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Researchers investigate estrogen to prevent depression and cardiovascular disease
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have launched a new clinical trial to determine if estrogen replacement therapy may help prevent depression and cardiovascular illness in women between the ages ...
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Reduced hormone therapy linked with drop in breast cancer rates
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new UCSF study of more than 2 million mammogram screenings performed on nearly 700,000 women in the United States, scientists for the first time show a direct link between reduced hormone therapy and ...
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Hormone therapy use may increase or decrease dementia risk depending upon timing
Compared to women never on hormone therapy, those taking hormone therapy only at midlife had a 26 percent decreased risk of dementia; while women taking HT only in late life had a 48 percent increased risk of dementia, according ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Menopausal hormone therapy may increase risk of ovarian cancer
Women planning on taking hormone therapy for the treatment of menopausal symptoms should be aware of a possible increased risk for ovarian cancer, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention ...
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Estrogen replacement therapy speeds ovarian cancer growth, new study reports
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.
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Hormone therapy use by postmenopausal women may increase incidence of more advanced breast cancer
Follow-up of about 11 years of participants in the Women's Health Initiative finds that among postmenopausal women, use of estrogen plus progestin is associated with an increased incidence of breast cancers that are more ...
Oct 19, 2010 |
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