Hot Flashes May Be Good News for Breast-Cancer Patients
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TUESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Hot flashes may act as positive sign for women taking drug treatment for early stage breast cancer, a new study suggests.
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Treating prostate cancer patients with female hormone therapy reduces the side effects of treatment, doctors believe.
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This week's news that a big drop in breast cancer cases might be due to millions of women going off menopause hormones may lead even more of them to abandon the pills.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Postmenopausal women who engage in more vigorous physical activity seem to have a lower risk of breast cancer.
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Study of aromatase inhibitors indicate they could reduce the chances that many breast cancer patients will develop a new cancer in the other breast or have the cancer spread elsewhere.
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MONDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- By reducing the amount of fat in their diet, postmenopausal women who've been treated for early-stage breast cancer may lower their risk for cancer recurrence, U.S. researchers say.
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NEW YORK  - Women who feel chronically stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - Some types of chemotherapy are  known to be potentially damaging to the heart, but for most  women with breast cancer the benefits appear to outweigh the  risks, French researchers report.
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When added to conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), testosterone may reduce the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, results of a small study suggest.
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NEW YORK  - A regular brisk walk may help women going through menopause improve their mental well-being, a new study suggests.
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Authors of a report released  this week encourage women who survive breast cancer to address  all of the modifiable risk factors they have for heart disease,  because breast cancer therapy can damage the heart.
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These days, women are less inhibited about mentioning their hot flashes, and many are flaunting their âchange of life.â
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NEW YORK  - The antidepressant venlafaxine  (Effexor) appears to be effective in treating postmenopausal  hot flashes in otherwise healthy women, according to a report  in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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Oct. 1, 2004 -- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is still the most effective treatment available for menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes and night sweats, but it is not without risk and should not be
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Many women are confused about what are the danger signs of breast cancer, a survey suggests.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the time of diagnosis, researchers report.