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Clinical Articles / BY: Raheesa Jina, BSc, MM October 2022
... to inform health care providers who prescribe menopausal hormone therapy. This article focuses on guideline A: the treatment of vasomotor ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Raheesa Jina, BSc, MM October 2022
... Menopause guideline: managing vasomotor symptoms via hormone therapy and nonpharmacologic measures. This second part ... Dunne was a member of the BCMJ Editorial Board when this article was written, and is now the journal’s editor, but ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, April 2012
... (e.g., exposure to ionizing radiation, the use of combined hormone replacement therapy), are also linked to increased breast cancer risk. ... cancer in BC. Competing interests None declared. This article has been peer reviewed. ABSTRACT: Approximately 1 in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lauren MacDonald, BScH, MSc, December 2010
... Many of these survivors are unaware of the specific cancer therapy they received earlier in life and do not know that ... to a number of late effects. Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency secondary to pituitary lesions or cranial ... Yukon Division. Competing interests None declared. This article has been peer reviewed. Many survivors of childhood ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP October 2001
... Menopause Society updated this review. Interest in herbal therapy is growing rapidly in Canada and the US. [ 12]  ... mood disturbances in perimenopausal women without altering hormone levels, endometrium (by transvaginal ultrasound), or ... their doses and costs will appear in Dr Timothy Rowe’s article in the November 2001 issue of the  BCMJ ). All ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christopher Bozek MD, FRCPC May 2001
... the sixth and eighth decades. With the advent of levodopa therapy 30 years ago, people now live with this disease for ... PD and sexual function in PD are beyond the scope of this article; please see the  "Suggested reading"  list at the ... PD. [14]  Marder and colleagues [15]  suggested that hormone replacement therapy might reduce the risk of dementia ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Karen A. Gelmon, MD, FRCPC November 2001
... and a comprehensive discussion is beyond the scope of this article. Issues of family history, reproductive history, age ... of breast cancer, have further emphasized the different hormone levels and menstrual cycle patterns and drawn ... with an intact uterus who is receiving HRT combination therapy should remain standard. Thus, although studies show a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darlene M.S. Hammell, MD October 2001
... remains unclear is the role that estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and estrogen with progestin therapy (HRT) have ... the patient who, at menopause, asks if she should take hormone therapy to decrease her risk of heart disease? How ... I am waiting for the evidence. Addenda  Since this article was accepted for publication, four events have ...