Lung Cancer and Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT) Connection.

Women's Menopause Health Center  February 15, 2006 Newsletter.

 

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Lung Cancer Connection.

Recent studies regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT), or the new preferred term, menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), are confusing. Most results now have doctors discouraging synthetic hormone use or are recommending minimal use, while others suggest that it is beneficial for certain age groups.

However, according to a January 26, 2006 Rueters Health article, another recent a study suggests Women who develop lung cancer appear to have lower survival rates if they have a history of using hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

 

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Dr. Apar Kishor Ganti, from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and colleagues took a look-back at nearly 500 women diagnosed with lung cancer between January 1994 and December 1999. The majority -- 86 percent -- had a history of smoking and 17 percent had taken HRT for at least 6 consecutive weeks anytime before being diagnosed with lung cancer.

Those researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, January 1, 2006, that overall survival was much better in women without a history of using synthetic hormones, compared with those who had taken hormone replacement therapy or menopausal hormone therapy in the past. Additionally, survival rates decreased even further when a history of smoking existed with a history of synthetic hormone use.

Further, they found that women who used synthetic menopausal hormone therapy were younger when diagnosed with lung cancer. The median age was 63, compared with 68 for women who had used synthetic menopausal hormone therapy.

The conclusion was that unless post-menopausal symptoms are severe, and can't be treated by other medications, synthetic hormone replacement therapy should be avoided.

Why then, given the serious risk to women’s health, do women take hormone replacement therapy? For many, the simple answer is that women need relief from hot flashes and other menopause symptoms.

Finding relief from menopause symptoms is not a black-and-white choice between taking hormone replacement therapy or doing nothing at all. Women do not need to place themselves in harm’s way to eliminate hot flashes, mood swings, weight gain, headaches and other effects of menopause.
 

The benefits of natural progesterone cream are said to be many:

Improves lipid profile.
Improves blood sugar control.
Improves burn up of body fat.
Natural anti-depressant.
Natural diuretic.
Eliminates hot flashes.
Creates the myelin sheath over nerves.
Gives people more energy.
Helps with sleep disorders.
Normalizes and restores sexual desire.
Promotes youthful skin appearance.
Resists facial hair growth.
Improves blood sugar control.
Promotes youthful skin appearance. (The late diet guru, Dr. Robert Atkins, M.D. was enthusiastic about natural progesterone cream for skin care. He endorsed its use because he found it the best wrinkle eradicator he ever had experienced.)

So with the addition of a regular exercise regimen, healthful diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, and practical, common sense remedies for hot flashes and anxiety, menopause can be a nearly symptom free transition.

February Menopause Recipe: Delicious Hamburger Substitute Crock Pot Lasagna.

February Bath and Body Recipe: Soothe Away the Aches and Pains Bath Salt Recipe.

February Exercise Tip: Is Tai Chi the Ultimate Exercise?

 

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