Hormone replacement therapy for Manning would take several years
Leave it up to the doctor? The questions became more troubling a few years ago when the media reported that a study showed an increase in the risk for breast cancer in patients who had hormone replacement therapy. But that wasnt the whole story. Dr. Lovera Wolf Miller, whose Michigan City, Ind., practice is through IU Health La Porte, explains, Those reports didnt tell us that the increased risk wasnt statistically significant. Miller, co-author with her husband, Dr.
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Hormone therapy in the 50s not linked to memory loss
Manning was sentenced this week to 35 years in military prison for giving classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. JoAnne Keatley, the director of the Center of Excellence for Transgendered Health at the University of California at San Francisco, calls the medication very expensive. It can run about $400 a month for those without coverage or whose insurance wont cover it. The hormones may come in pill or injectable form. Its a legitimate medical treatment that [patients] need access to, and being without it can lead to negative health outcomes including suicide, Keatley said. However, HRT has its limits which is where reconstructive surgery can come into play. Masculine characteristics such as height, facial features and voice are not affected by changes in sex hormones. The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery , one of only a handful of such clinics in the nation, performs breast augmentations and genital surgeries, as well as facial feminization procedures tailored to patients needs.
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“So for (younger) women who really need hormone therapy to treat menopause symptoms this study didn’t find hormone therapy had the amount of harm as it did for older women,” said Grodstein, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Espeland told Reuters Health there could be a few possible explanations for the difference between older and younger women using hormone replacement therapy. One possible explanation could be that older women already have more memory problems and hormone therapy accelerates the decline. It could also be that a woman’s brain adapts to lower levels of hormones after menopause and hormone therapy disrupts that process.
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