Re: Estrogen/ovarian cancer: the duck's other shoe drops!
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Jul 17 09:46:01 2002
anyone get the feelin that you've been snookered by the
medical-pharmaceutical complex?
art
At Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Jeffrey W. Clemens wrote:
>
>Listers,
>
>>From NYT.com
>
><snip>Study Shows Estrogen Therapy to Raise Risk of Ovarian Cancer
>By REUTERS
>
>CHICAGO, July 16 ‹ In another piece of the increasingly complex
>hormone-replacement health puzzle, researchers said today that one study had
>found that women treated only with estrogen after menopause ran a higher
>risk of ovarian cancer than women not taking any form of hormone
>replacement.
>
>James Lacey of the National Cancer Institute, lead author of the estrogen
>study, published in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association,
>said there was not enough evidence to say whether there was also an ovarian
>cancer risk from estrogen taken in combination with progestin.
>
>The Women's Health Initiative is continuing to study the use of estrogen
>supplements alone in women who have had hysterectomies. That trial, which is
>a large, randomly controlled clinical study, is expected to go on until 2005
>and so far has found no evidence that estrogen alone is causing an increased
>risk of breast cancer.
>
>In an editorial in the journal commenting on the ovarian cancer study,
>Kenneth Noller of Tufts University and the New England Medical Center in
>Boston said the latest research as well as two recent studies, including one
>from Sweden, indicated that a causal connection could exist between estrogen
>therapy and ovarian cancer.
>
>"While the data from these observational studies do not establish causality,
>the association between estrogen use and ovarian cancer should be worrisome
>enough for clinicians to consider carefully whether to suggest
>estrogen-only" hormone replacement therapy, Dr. Noller said.
><snip>
>
> Though not a clinician, my prescription to the docs on the list would be
>to take two of your NSAIDs of choice and not answer the phone until morning
>:]!
>
>--
>Jeffrey W. Clemens, Ph.D.
>Formerly Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Duquesne University,
>Pittsburgh, PA
>To be Visiting Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Butler University,
>Indianapolis, IN
>
--
art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
