Interview
with Neil Love, MD from Breast Cancer Update for Medical Oncologists,
Program 4 2000
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The
one paper I quote frequently, came out of John Hopkins, Couzi is
the first author, back in Journal of Clinical Oncology several
years ago, where – and again I’m going from memory here
— but she interviewed, I think, 191 women who had been through
the menopause and had had a history of breast cancer. And the information
was that there was an astonishing number of them who had trouble
with hot flashes – 60% rings a bell, but I’d have to take
that with a grain of salt. Actually a similar number of women who
complained of night sweats, and a similar number of women who complained
of sleeping trouble. I suspect that many of those are the same women,
because they’re sweating at night and waking up and then they
are tired during the day, having trouble with their sleep. And,
somewhere around one-third of women, a fairly high percentage of
women, had tried hormone replacement therapy, despite this worry
and concern that’s out there and about, and somewhere around
one-third of the women said they would like to take something and
would be willing to take hormone replacement therapy "if monitored
closely" for what good that may or may not be we all might say,
for breast cancer.
Biopsy
confirmed benign breast disease, postmenopausal use of exogenous
female hormones, and breast carcinoma risk. Byrne,
C.; Connolly, J. L.; Colditz, G. A., and Schnitt, S. J.. Cancer.
89(10):2046-2052, 2000 Nov 15.
Postmenopausal
estrogens - Opposed, unopposed, or none of the above Willett, W. C.; Colditz, G., and Stampfer, M. (Reprint available
from: Willett WC Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Nutr 667 Huntington
Ave Boston, MA 02115 USA).. Jama: Journal of the American Medical
Association. 283(4):534-535, 2000 Jan 26. No abstract
Re:
Effect of hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer risk: Estrogen
versus estrogen plus progestin Archer, D. F.; Bush, T., and Nachtigall, L. E. (Reprint available
from: Nachtigall LE NYU, Sch Med, Dept Obstet & Gynecol 251
E 33rd St New York, NY 10016 USA).. Journal of the National Cancer
Institute. 92(23):1950-1951, 2000 Dec 6. No abstract
Evaluation
of soy phytoestrogens for the treatment of hot flashes in breast
cancer survivors: A North Central Cancer Treatment Group trial.
Quella, S. K.; Loprinzi, C. L.; Barton, D. L.; Knost, J. A.; Sloan,
J. A.; LaVasseur, B. I.; Swan, D.; Krupp, K. R.; Miller, K. D.,
and Novotny, P. J. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 18(5):1068-1074,
2000 Mar.
