Radiation therapy, a form of cancer treatment used to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells, can be delivered to your body using external radioactive beams or internal placement of radioactive material in the body. It is a powerful form of therapy meant to damage cancerous cells, but undergoing radiation treatment has many adverse effects, including hormonal imbalance leading to fever, sweats and hot flashes. Consult your physician before trying herbal remedies to alleviate symptoms because no clinical evidence substantiates use of herbal products as effective for treating hot flashes related to radiation therapy.
The pre-menopausal phase is a challenging time for many women. They may find their lives disrupted by hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, depression and changes in bone mineral density. Because well-designed scientific studies ...
Human chorionic gonadotropin is usually considered the pregnancy hormone, although even women who are not pregnant produce small amounts. Women transitioning into menopause often have higher levels of hCG than the average woman...
menopause is the time when a women ceases having menstrual periods and stops ovulating. Perimenopause is anywhere from several months to several years before menopause. During this time a woman may experience a number of sympt...
During menopause, hormone levels, including estradiol levels, decline in women and the ovaries stop producing eggs. Estradiol is a specific type of estrogen, produced in the ovaries, and is the most abundant hormone in women du...
Women transition into menopause in a range of ways. For some, the experience is relatively untroubled, while others develop a number of symptoms. Both ways are perfectly natural. There are also treatments and lifestyle changes ...
Genetics, lifestyle and hormonal changes are all factors in post-menopausal women's tendency to gain weight and store it around their waistlines. According to MayoClinic.com, women after menopause require about 200 less daily c...
menopause is not a disease but a natural biological process that marks the end of menstruation and fertility in women. Even though it is a natural course of a woman’s life cycle, menopause causes physical and psychologica...
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