Breast cancer is the most common malignancy amongst women in the developed world. For patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer eligible for adjuvant hormonal therapy, it is important to know if the ovaries are (still) functional or not. Indeed, the choice for a specific adjuvant hormonal treatment depends on the menopausal status of an individual woman. The currently available measures to ...

The risk-benefit evaluation for managing vasomotor symptoms and other menopause-related health issues should be tailored to each individual woman, taking into account her own assessment of the most bothersome symptom(s) and her personal weighting of risks versus quality of life. For most symptomatic menopausal women, hormone therapy (HT) remains the best treatment, but various nonhormonal optio...

This study addresses the question of willingness to pay (WTP) for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in order to alleviate menopausal symptoms. The woman obtains utility from consumption of goods and health. The purchase of a treatment is represented as a shift in the health production function during the treatment period. The mean WTP for the HRT is estimated using a parametric and a non-parame...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prevalence of women aged 50 years or more who are sexually active and their self-perception with respect to their sexual lives. Associated factors were also assessed. METHODS A cross-sectional, population-based, self-reported household survey involving 622 Brazilian women aged 50 years or more. Sociodemographic, clinical, and behavioral factors were evaluated. The sexu...

Objective: To analyze histopathological findings in endometrium of peri-menopausal women presenting with dysfunctional uterine bleeding at a tertiary care hospital South Punjab, Pakistan. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration the Study: The Department Obstetrics & Gynecology, Bakhtawar Amin Trust Teaching Hospital, Multan, Pakistan from April 2021 to March 2022. Material M...

Objective: To study the role of antioxidants, calcium and exercises in menopausal women. Method: In this pilot study fifty postmenopausal women were selected and they supplemented with antioxidents, calcium and adviced weight bearing exercises for three months. Thier menopausal symptoms,lipid profiles and BMD were assessed. Results: Antioxidants, calcium and exercises reduced stress, elevate mo...

IUD's like Lippes Loop (LL), intended for long term use are retained for years and menopausal ladies often present with LL in situ either deliberately or forgotten. We report a case of Lippes Loop removal inserted 45 years back in a woman complaining of post menopausal bleeding. The inserted LL thread was incidentally discovered during clinical examination and Ultrasonography. We also reviewed ...

menopause is one of the most critical periods of woman's life. with reducing of ovarian estrogen; women are more prone to psychological and physical symptoms. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of melatonin on the climacteric symptoms.the present double blind, placebo randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 240 menopausal women (40 - 60 years old) referring to the g...

there are currently ‎many different protocols in use for controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (coh), but the optimal method has ‎not yet been determined. to compare the outcome of coh using ‎clomiphene citrate (cc) versus cc plus human menopausal gonadotropin (hmg) in conjunction with intrauterine insemination (iui), we studied 117 infertile couples‎. iui with cc was used in 92 cycles ‎(group a)...