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	<title>Power Of Hormonal Action</title>
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		<title>Breast Cancer Incidence Plateaued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women and clinicians are regularly reminded about the threat of breast cancer by the media, advertisements, and the experiences of friends or family members who are fighting the disease. And there is good reason for breast cancer to be prominent in our consciousness: The breast is the leading site of cancer in US women (32% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/breast-cancer-incidence-plateaued/</link>
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		<title>Impact of Androgens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers who study the influence of hormones on behavior have the greatest difficulty in associating testosterone with any human behaviors whatsoever. They have injected all kinds of animals at all stages of development with synthetic testosterone to see how it affected their behavior. They have juggled the naturally occurring estrogens and androgens to see whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/impact-of-androgens/</link>
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		<title>Effect of Estrogen plus Progestin on Quality of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the recently published analysis of the effects of estrogen plus progestin on health-related quality of life (QOL) in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the authors concluded that this therapy did not have a clinically meaningful effect.1 However, caution is warranted in interpreting the findings of this analysis. The study design has several limitations that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/effect-of-estrogen-plus-progestin-on-quality-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holmberg and Anderson recently published a research letter in the journal Lancet regarding early cessation of the HABITS study,1 a Scandinavian trial designed to evaluate the risk of breast cancer recurrence in women with previously treated breast cancers who were given hormone therapy (HT) for relief of menopausal symptoms. The primary objective of the study [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/postmenopausal-hormone-therapy-and-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Testosterone and Agression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children, old people and women are all short of testosterone. Even ten years ago, testosterone was a word not often heard; nowadays the presence of testosterone in the environment is often remarked on. When the stands at the football ground are packed with vociferating fans it is described as a testosterone storm. When a driver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/testosterone-and-agression/</link>
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		<title>ERT for Menopausal Women With History of Breast Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women with a history of breast cancer have been advised to avoid estrogen replacement therapy (ERT). A reassessment of this approach has been initiated by several authors and clinical reports to date have not supported this tenet. The only prospective randomized trial reported to date is that of Vassilopoulou-Sellin et al. The authors conducted a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/ert-for-menopausal-women-with-history-of-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Testosterone: Use and Pharmaceutical Forms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original intention of testosterone were the treatment of males who have too little or no natural endogenous testosterone production with hypogonadism. Appropriate use for this purpose is legitimate hormone replacement therapy which maintains serum testosterone levels in the normal range.
Many other applications of testosterone includes the following:

Infertility
Lack of libido
Erectile dysfunction
Osteoporosis
Penile enlargement
Height growth
Bone marrow stimulation
Reversal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/testosterone-use-and-pharmaceutical-forms/</link>
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		<title>Risk of Breast Cancer with Combined EPT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baseline incidence of invasive breast cancers in non-HRT users is 32/1000 between ages 50 and 65 years. Baseline incidence of endometrial cancers in non-HRT users is 5/1000 between ages 50 and 64 years.
The excess risk of breast cancer with long-term use (10 years) of 19/1000 EPT and 5/1000 for ET alone can be compared with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/risk-of-breast-cancer-with-combined-ept/</link>
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		<title>Hormone Therapy and Osteoporosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The effects of estrogen deficiency on the skeletal system have been clearly established for more than 60 years. The molecular mechanisms accounting for estrogen-related bone loss have been known for a decade or longer, and the benefits of estrogen on the skeleton have been recognized for half a century. The adverse consequences of estrogen depletion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/hormone-therapy-and-osteoporosis/</link>
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		<title>Hormones and Postmenopausal Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Menopause-related estrogen loss is associated with symptoms that can have a negative impact on a woman&#8217;s sense of well-being and her daily activities. In addition, menopausal women are at an increased risk for developing osteoporosis. Therefore, for some menopausal women, hormone therapy (HT, administered as either unopposed estrogen or estrogen plus progestin) may be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scncoalition.org/hormones-and-postmenopausal-health/</link>
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