Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
...chers of over 200 breast cancer patients receiving hormone treatments such as tamoxifen has found that nearly...th them. For pre-menopausal women, possibly taking hormone tablets, who have also been hit by chemotherapy, the sudden onset of menopausal hot flushes and nigh...Testosterone therapy improves sexual function in post-menopausal women
The addition of testosterone to hormone therapy in women after menopause enhances their se...1,957 patients who had testosterone added to their hormone replacement therapy (either estrogen or combined estrogen/progestin) for an average of six months. T...Growth hormone illegal for off-label anti-aging use, study warns
...ff-label distribution or provision of human growth hormone to treat aging or age-associated illnesses is ille...anti-aging clinics market HGH with claims that the hormone stops and reverses aging and provides many other benefits, including improved nail and hair growth, ...Decline in breast cancer deaths explained by use of screening and adjuvant therapies
...d the use of adjuvant therapies - chemotherapy and hormone therapy used in conjunction with primary treatment by surgery and/or radiation. But because each of these factors gained in popularity and use at about the same time, it is not a simple matter to separate out the relative contribution of each to impr...Study reveals hormone can reduce food intake, body weight
...ealth & Science University has demonstrated that a hormone found naturally in the body has the ability to cau...le PYY, caused some weight loss in this study, the hormone does not seem to be a silver bullet to fight obesity," said Michael Cowley, Ph.D., an assistant scie......r scientists say their tests provide evidence that hormone therapy will not diminish the value of radiation. ...owed any indication of low oxygen levels following hormone suppression," he says.It is still unclear as to how oxygen remains in the tumor without the small bl...Broccoli sprouts, cabbage, ginkgo biloba and garlic: A grocery list for cancer prevention
...ities of meat, although fat and caloric intake and hormone exposure may contribute to this increased risk. Diallyl sulfide (DAS), a flavor component of garlic, has been shown to inhibit the effects of PhIP that, when biologically active, can cause DNA damage or transform substances in the body into carcino...Causes of primary biliary cirrhosis
...ese include a history of urinary tract infections, hormone replacement therapy, tobacco use, and nail polish ...ory of smoking, use of nail polish, and history of hormone replacement therapy. By contrast, never having been pregnant was significantly associated with prote...Long-term hormone use helps prostate cancer patients live longer
... cancer patients with radiation therapy and adding hormone therapy for more than one year allows patients to ... stage. The first group had 151 patients receiving hormone therapy for less than 12 months (short term) and the second set had 156 patients receiving hormone t...Vitamin D compounds show promise for prevention of prostate cancer
...ol (Zemplar) have been shown to reduce parathyroid hormone levels (which regulate the metabolism of calcium a...in some mice. The effect of calcitriol and QW on hormone refractory prostate cancer was also investigated, using castrated TRAMP mice. Results showed that v...Body checking found to cause few youth hockey injuries
...ese adolescents as they adjust to changes in their hormone levels," he said. Leddy is a UB clinical associate professor of orthopaedics and associate director of the UB Sports Medicine Institute. Willer suggests that the key to injury prevention is increased skill development, plus a greater emphasis on le...Vitamin D, taxotere combination extends the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer
...a unique form of calcitriol, a naturally occurring hormone and the biologically active form of vitamin D. Research also shows that DN-101 may protect against major side effects of chemotherapy. "When DN-101 is added to chemotherapy, it provides a significant improvement in survival for advanced prostate c...Studies find no evidence that estrogens in soy increase uterine cancer risk
...the risk of endometrial cancer. The formulation of hormone therapy designed to address that risk a combination of estrogen and progesterone has been shown to increase risk of breast cancer. Soy and some other plants contain estrogen-like compounds called isoflavones or phytoestrogens. These plant estrogens ...New findings help explain how brain pathways control body weight
...a decade ago with the identification of the leptin hormone and which has been growing steadily ever since. "Maintaining a stable body weight is a delicate balancing act between the amount of food eaten versus the number of calories burned," says Bradford B. Lowell, MD, PhD, of BIDMC's department of endocrino...Cancer survivors require distinct care
...cer treatments -- including surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and radiation therapy -- can have long-term effects on tissues and organ systems. "Unfortunately, many critical aspects of cancer survivors' needs are lost somewhere between active treatment and long-term follow-up, which is why we call for ...Vitamin D status appears more important than high calcium intake for maintaining calcium metabolism
...en serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) is well established. Parathyroid hormone is a major hormone maintaining normal serum concentrations of calcium and phosphate and is itself re...Jefferson researchers find lack of protein in obese people is risk factor for kidney, heart disease
...ave found that mice with low levels of the protein hormone adiponectin may also have high levels of a protein...lation between the urine albumin and levels of the hormone adiponectin in obese mice. To prove the relationship, they also studied mice without adiponectin ("a...Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
...rt-failure group had only 50 percent. Measures of hormone levels and volume of blood in the lungs, a factor in making people of short of breath as a symptom of the disease, increased to similar levels in both groups: 50 percent and 10 percent, respectively. While the exact cause of these differences in hear...NHLBI research highlights at American Heart Association's scientific sessions
...ia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study analyzed blood hormone levels of 400 women (296 postmenopausal and 104 premenopausal) undergoing coronary angiography for suspected myocardial ischemia, a heart condition characterized by reduced blood flow. Hormones measured included estradiol, estrone, FSH, LH, free tes...Higher placental weight associated with increased maternal breast cancer risk
...enstruation), late menopause, and long-term use of hormone therapy have been shown to be associated with incr...t placental weight could be an indirect measure of hormone exposure during pregnancy. Sven Cnattingius, M.D., Ph.D., of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Swede...