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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Hormone replacement therapy may be linked to cancer, but what about hormone suppression?
Hormonal therapy, known as hormone deprivation therapy, uses aromatase inhibitors to lower estrogen levels, “starving” tumors that need these hormones to grow, according to an ongoing study led by doctors at Baltimore’s Mercy Medical Center.
The inhibitors “prevent the breast cancer from coming back,” Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer, director of the prevention and research center at Mercy.
Vitamin D helps prevent cancer, but levels vary for black and white women due to skin pigmentation. black women have “less Vitamin D because skin pigment blocks the sun,” Helzlsouer said.
Is Vitamin D a factor, or is there a biological reason? The study hopes to answer these questions.
“We know the medicine works. … how do we get people through treatment easier,” Helzlsouer said.
Breast cancer survivors who took hormone replacement therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms had more than three times as many breast cancer recurrences as survivors who did not take HRT, according to the National Cancer Institute Web site.
Mercy is enrolling participants, including women with and without breast cancer and black and white women who have been through menopause. Enrollment of patients began last summer and will continue for another year.
The Study
Study participants can enroll for another year and will be followed on their medication for five years. Contact Dr. Kathy Helzlsouer at 410-951-7950.
khille@baltimoreexaminer.com
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I know how it works. Creatine ups ATP which inturn stops the hyperpolarizing of brain cells by leptin. MTGDGW
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Your alcohol facts are not quite straight. You mentioned Avant Hand Sanitizer- it has denatured alcohol. The denaturing process adds a bitter agent- it make sit taste horrible- definitely not a vodka type drink. That is why alcohol is denatured- to avoid abuse like this. It will likely make you vomit.
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Former Minneapolis Fire Chief: A First Responder in I-35W Bridge Collapse; Coordinates Helping Hand Contribution of Soapopular Hand Sanitizers For EMS Workers For Immediate Release Minneapolis, MN, Aug 8, 2007-- Former Minneapolis Fire Department Chief Bonnie Bleskachek, an embattled hero to many in the Minneapolis community, hasn't allowed recent personal controversy to stand in the way of helping Minnesota citizens in times of crisis. Since the August 1 catastrophe first occurred, Bleskachek has been working tirelessly by coordinating volunteer and emergency supply logistics, and she was the first to respond to an unsolicited call from a Connecticut company offering to contribute a shipment of Soapopular, a new, alcohol-free hand sanitizer, for emergency workers at the disaster scene.
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Hand-Sanitizer=Alcohol Poisoning.. As inane as the subject might seam, the exponential growth in the use of hand sanitizer products over the past few years has lead to an ever-increasing number of alcohol-poisoning instances--and too many within school/educational settings. Most recent report was two weeks ago in Hartford CT, where second grader, overloaded her hands from a Purell bottle on her teachers desk ,then licked it off--and was soon rushed to Yale University Hospital and diagnosed with alchohol poisoning. Thank goodness that some new manufacturers, including Soapopular--which offers a full line of Alcohol-FREE hand sanitizing products, are now getting retailers to put their products on their shelves. Soapopular, which is Canada's leading brand in the alcohol-free segment, made its debut last week here in the US.
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