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Article: Black cohosh for hot flashes in breast cancer survivors. (Women's Health Update).
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Eighty-five patients who had completed their primary treatment for breast cancer were randomly assigned to black cohosh extract or placebo. Fifty-nine were on tamoxifen and 26 not on tamoxifen. Patients were asked to take one 20 mg tablet twice daily with meals for 8 weeks. They were also asked to record the number and intensity of hot flashes and score as mild, moderate or severe for 3 days before starting to take any study pills and then again on days 27-30 and days 57-60. At the beginning and end of the study, subjects completed a detailed menopausal symptom index and a scale rating overall health and well-being.
Upon analysis of the results, both the treatment ...