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...estrogen? Every new study on hormone replacement therapy and menopause seems to confuse the question further. Taking estrogen and progestin has been linked to increased risks of heart disease, stroke and even breast cancer in postmenopausal women. But what about taking estrogen alone, for women who have had their uterus or ovaries removed? Studies have suggested that there's a critical, age-dependent window before menopause during which the hormone - either the body's natural estrogen or that which is introduced during therapy - is protective. Now, two new, related studies in the Aug. 29 online edition of Neurology lend more...
...some 10% of patients who undergo hysterectomy do so to treat cancer of the ovaries, uterus or cervix. In such cases, doctors agree that the procedure is necessary. And these patients undergo hysterectomy in its most radical form, which involves removal of the uterus, cervix, the upper part of the vagina and the lymph nodes...
...other 90% of hysterectomy patients opt for the surgery for noncancerous, non-life-threatening-and some would say unnecessary-reasons: 35% of women use it to remove fibroids (benign tumors in the uterus); another 30%, to do away with abnormally heavy bleeding during menstruation. Other common reasons for hysterectomy include endometriosis, or growth of tissue outside the uterus, and pelvic pain. Today, twice as many women in their 20s and 30s undergo hysterectomy as do women in their...
...choose to remove fibroids, there are alternatives to hysterectomy: laparoscopic myomectomy eliminates fibroids through half-inch incisions made in the abdominal wall. In fibroid embolization, an interventional radiologist injects tiny polyvinyl alcohol particles, like miniature Stryofoam balls, into the uterine arteries to stop the flow of blood to the uterus and keep fibroids from growing...
...number of hysterectomies, and rates of oophorectomy are climbing. The reasons: Parker says that doctors have not learned many of the new alternative techniques, which can be difficult to master, and insurance companies continue to pay out more for hysterectomies than for alternative operations that preserve the uterus and ovaries...