New Drug Prevents Breast Cancer In Postmenopausal Women, UCSF Researchers Report
... by 45 percent, it also showed anincreased risk of endometrial cancer. Of the 13,388 women who participated inth..., and over time, may increase herrisk of breast or endometrial cancer. At the same time, however, estrogen has been proven to significantly reduce awoman's risk of...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
..., lipid metabolism,and the incidence of breast and endometrial cancer. "To achieve any benefits with osteoporos...stimulate reproductive tissue orincrease breast or endometrial cancer risks. The first interim MORE findingswere presented earlier this year at the American Societ...Soy May Decrease Cancer Risks, Wake Forest Researcher Says
...-- in both the mammary glands of the breast and in endometrial tissue. But when monkeys got dietary soy ...dicatethat soy supplements may decrease breast and endometrial cell proliferation andtherefore could decrease cancer risk in these tissues," Cline said. In...Study Shows Hormone Replacement Therapy Does Not Elevate Breast Cancer Risk
...ut co-administered progestins increases therisk of endometrial cancer. Women with a history of benign breast disease already face a 40-260 percentincrease in breast cancer risk, depending on the type of breast lesion. It waspreviously thought that these women might have an even greater elevation inbreast cancer...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
... The UNC gynecologic oncologist explains that in endometrial and ovariancancers the drug specifically targets e...strogen" would block estrogenuptake of ovarian and endometrial tumors, thus inhibiting their growth. At the same time, the drug may offer additional benefi...Tamoxifen found to increase risk of endometrial cancer
...body," Bernstein said. "Althoughwe have known that endometrial or uterine cancer develops in a tiny proportion of...fen therapy for breast cancer increasedthe risk of endometrial cancer by about 50 percent. The longer women are ontamoxifen therapy, the greater their risk: women......s a known risk factor for the later development of endometrial cancer. The effects of estrogen are sometimes controlled by the addition of progestin, another hormone. But progestin can bring about other unpleasant side effects, such as menstrual-like bleeding. It appears that phytoestrogens may be helpful in the...Low dose estrogen improves bone health
...en kept track of vaginal bleeding with diaries and endometrial thickness was measured to the closest 1mm by transvaginal ultrasound. Bone mineral density of the hip, lumbar spine and total body was measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA scan) at the first visit. Researchers examined biochemical bon...... is known to fuel the growth of certain breast and endometrial cancers whose cells have estrogen receptors. For t...ene include flu symptoms, hot flashes, leg cramps, endometrial cavity fluid and peripheral edema....Safer estrogen targets painful intercourse in older women
...ith certain health risks, including breast cancer, endometrial cancer and stroke, leading many women to avoid thi...ent is not advised, including those with breast or endometrial cancer. The drug has not yet been tested in humans. If the new estrogen ultimately proves to restor...Raloxifene following tamoxifen may offer no more reduction in breast cancer risk
...hat's more, raloxifene may stimulate the growth of endometrial tumors, conclude Ruth M. O'Regan, M.D., and V. Cra...ly doesn't help, it may increase a woman's risk of endometrial cancer. To get around this, researchers have suggested following a 5-year tamoxifen treatment with ...Raloxifene after tamoxifen not beneficial
...opausal women and may actually stimulate growth of endometrial tumors, according to a Northwestern University stu... tamoxifen treatment in mouse models of breast and endometrial cancers. They found that, after exposing breast and endometrial tumors in mice to combinations of ...First IBIS results show tamoxifen reduces breast cancer in healthy high-risk women
...at there was a 2 to 3-fold increase in the risk of endometrial cancer and a 2 to 3-fold increase in the risk of thromboembolism for women taking tamoxifen. For all of the prevention trials combined there was no effect on all-cause mortality with 112 deaths in the tamoxifen arms and 122 in the placebo arms. Howe...Use of tampons and sexual activity protect women against endometriosis
...ccording to research by a Yale physician. Normally endometrial tissue grows only in the uterus and is shed each m...during menstruation. Women with endometriosis have endometrial tissue growing in the Fallopian tubes, ovaries, and other sites within the pelvis, or in rare cases,...Early promise of alternative hormone treatment for breast cancer
... is associated with several side-effects including endometrial cancer and blood-clotting disorders. The ATAC inve...as better tolerated than tamoxifen with respect to endometrial cancer, vaginal bleeding and discharge, stroke, venous thromboembolic events, and hot flushes. Tamox...Early promise of alternative hormone treatment
... is associated with several side-effects including endometrial cancer and blood-clotting disorders. The ATAC inve...as better tolerated than tamoxifen with respect to endometrial cancer, vaginal bleeding and discharge, stroke, venous thromboembolic events, and hot flushes. Tamox...Good news about oral contraceptives
... risk for breast cancer and reduces their risk for endometrial and ovarian cancers. Their editorial appears in the June 27, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Forty years after oral contraceptives were introduced in the United States, results of the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Exper...More than 10 million developed cancer in 2000
...nce indicating that breast and prostate cancer and endometrial carcinoma of the uterus are caused by smoking. It ... cancer of the breast, prostate, colon/rectum, and endometrial carcinoma of the uterus which are much less frequent in poor countries. The risk of developing some ...New research suggests drugs might help women at risk of breast cancer
...he said. Tamoxifen appears to increase the risk of endometrial cancer and stroke slightly. Women who have their uteruses removed obviously do not have to worry about getting cancer there. "It would be nice if we could say clearly that certain women should take one or the other of these drugs and that certain ot...