Women's Health

Oestrogen supplements in the menopause: are they back in fashion? 'The more, the merrier', is certainly not necessarily true for sample sizes in scientific studies'; this was painfully demonstrated by the 'million women study' (MWS). In the summer of 2003, the results of the MWS were published in The Lancet. Risk for invasive breast cancer in women using postmenopausal hormone therapy (PHT) was reported to be so high, and to occur after such a short period of treatment, that public alarm was difficult to quash. [More] HPV vaccine and Guilliain-Barré syndrome: are they linked? After the initial euphoria that, at last, a vaccine had been developed against human papillomavirus (HPV), critics started wondering about its safety. Cervical cancer used to be an epidemiological nightmare. Many women died from the disease at a young age, and its causes were unknown. When many countries started massive screening campaigns in the form of PAP smears, the mortality from cervical cancer decreased dramatically. Around 1999, scientists discovered that a virus was found in 99% of all cervical cancers. Today, HPV is well-known to all, and so is the vaccine against it. [More] Lung cancer in women Unfortunately, women saw cigarette smoking as part as their 'emancipation' and freedom fight, and they are now paying the price for it. Lung cancer mortality rates in women have dramatically increased since 1950, and are now the leading cause of cancer death among American women, surpassing breast cancer. Lung cancer appears to behave differently in men and women and several studies have reported sex differences in the clinical presentation, histology and outcome of lung cancer. [More]

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