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What the Women’s Health Initiative Results Mean for Breast Cancer Survivors

In July 2002 a large, randomized control trial called the Women’s Health Initiative was stopped three years early with the conclusion that Estrogen plus Progestin (E+P) is, on balance, not an effective preventative medication for healthy menopausal women. The results of this trial have surprised both doctors and the general public, because they have shown that E+P does not prevent heart disease and causes breast cancer (1). We believe there are several changes in concepts about menopausal hormone therapy that are important for breast cancer survivors.

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Life Phase: 
Perimenopause, Menopause

Naming Women's Midlife

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Life Phase: 
Menopause

Older Women's Fracture Prevention: the importance of bone formation

Women’s bone health is closely related to the ovarian hormones,

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Articles
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause, Menopause

Does taking progesterone (alone or with estrogen) increase women’s risk for breast cancer?

QUESTION

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Menstrual flow and timing changes following COVID-19 infection or vaccination

Acute COVID-19 Illness and Menstrual Cycles

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Healing the Menstrual Cycle in PCOS

It is difficult living with

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Use of “the Pill” and bone changes in adolescent women

Science today recognizes that most new knowledge is never shared. New studies are finally funded, eventually the study is complete, the research is written, reviewed by other scientists and eventually published—all after great effort. But the people who participated in that research and others world-wide for whom the data are relevant, never learn about it. Although rarely there is media notice, often the publication just sits there.

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Life Phase: 
Adolescence

Why Is “The Pill” Harmful for Bones in Adolescent Women?

by Drs. Jerilynn C. Prior & Azita Goshtasebi

Use of “The Pill” prevents bone growth in teenaged women. New evidence resulting from combining two-year-long studies in almost 900 adolescent women using Combined Hormonal Contraceptives (CHC) women, showed negative bone changes.

Really?

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Life Phase: 
Adolescence

New PCOS therapy article written for Clue by Dr. Jerilynn Prior

Dr. Jerilynn Prior has written an article for the period tracking app, Clue.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Anovulatory Androgen (AAE, or PCOS)

Frequently Asked Questions about Anovulatory

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Estrogen’s Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause

Estrogen's Storm Season

by Dr. Jerilynn C Prior

New second edition available

Estrogen’s Storm Season is now available in BOTH print and eBook (Mobi and ePUB) versions!

All royalties are recieved in our Endowment fund (overseen by UBC) and support CeMCOR's research and future.

It is full of lively, realistic stories with which women can relate and evidence-based, empowering perimenopause information. It was a finalist in 2006 for the Independent Publisher Book Award in Health.

Purchase your ebook copy via our Amazon Kindle or
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Paperback copies (with updated insert) still available here.

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