ScienceDaily- For men with locally advanced prostate cancer the addition of radiation treatment to anti-androgen hormone therapy reduces the risk of dying of prostate cancer by 50 percent compared to those who have anti-androgen hormone treatment alone, according to a randomized study presented September 22, 2008, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology’s [...]
London (PTI): When it comes to matters of heart, men are more prone to heart diseases compared to women of similar age — blame it on sex hormones, says a new study.
The findings of a study by Maciej Tomaszewski of the University of Leicester, suggest that this “male disadvantage” may be related to the [...]
The two major female sex hormones in the body are estrogen and progesterone. They are produced in a pair of organ in the abdomen, known as the ovaries. The ovaries start producing large quantities of estrogen when a girl reaches about 12 years of age. This enables her to grow rapidly and develop into a [...]
Many women are searching for an effective natural approach to relieving their menopausal symptoms because of the recent negative findings of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). On May 31, 2002, the National Institutes of Health stopped a major long-term clinical trial of the risks and benefits of combined estrogen and progestin before the trial was completed. [...]
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