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Article: What about breast cancer and cardiovascular disease risks with the best treatments during the climacterium and beyond
- Article from:
- Gynecological Endocrinology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright CRC Press Jun 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There is a general tendency to consider that sex steroid hormones are the only instruments with which to treat women when they enter the climacteric phase of their lives. Both women and physicians share this assumption. Otherwise the ongoing discussions that have exploded all over the world would not have been centered only in the risk-benefit assessment of hormonal treatments.
The climacteric is a complex phase of a woman's life, being the transition from the reproductive to the non-reproductive years. There are many symptoms that may interfere with women's quality of life during this time, derived either from hormonal imbalances and deficiencies or from factors arising from the ...