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Title: Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Still Ideal for Anti-Aging Skin
Care?
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Author: Naweko Nicole Dial
Email: truthlightfire@yahoo.com
Category: Health & Fitness
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Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Still Ideal for Anti-Aging Skin Care?
Would you like to see a cat fight? Just ask two cancer
researchers whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
causes cancer. This question certainly provoked several
arguments in the medical community this week. The first
feud started once a report in the New England Journal of
Medicine linked the decline in breast cancer rates in 2003
to reduced usage of hormone replacement therapy.
After that announcement, the International Menopause
Society (IMS) attacked the report’s credibility by pointing
out shortcomings like “a transient decrease in breast
cancer incidence was observed also around 1987=969.” And so
for the IMS, the ultimate cause of cancer remains
questionable-not a definite HRT side effect.
The next tiff to take place over HRT happened once the
Lancet unveiled findings from the One Million Women Study.
The United Kingdom-based study followed almost 950,000
postmenopausal women for five years to investigate the link
between ovarian cancer incidence and HRT usage. According
to the researchers, women who use HRT are at an increased
risk of both incident and fatal ovarian cancer.
Then in true fighter spirit, the International Menopause
Society discredited this HRT study as well. This time the
IMS argued that the Lancet study skewed its numbers and
that such ill-derived results, “will inevitably cause
further unnecessary distress to the many women who are
benefiting from HRT.” It appears the struggles over the
safeness of hormone replacement therapy will endure ad
infinitum.
Meanwhile, should adults continue to use hormone
replacement therapy in the mist of possible cancer risks?
If eradicating wrinkles and maintaining your skin’s
elasticity as long as possible are important to you, then
hormone replacement therapy will help you to meet this
goal. For example, postmenopausal women who use hormone
therapy for five years or less typically had fewer wrinkles
and firmer skin than women who opted not to use the
treatment.
Similarly, a study in the journal Dermatology recommended
using hormone replacement therapy to counteract the natural
loss of facial tissue, or plumpness, which occurs with
aging. Moreover, results from the First National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey discovered the after examining
nearly 3,800 postmenopausal women, those using hormone
replacement therapy had significantly less wrinkling and
skin dryness.
While hormone replacement therapy may sound like a cosmetic
redeemer, the battle over the safeness of this
controversial therapy continues on a number of fronts. You
have your choice of natural, synthetic and bioidentical
hormones.
Likewise, you have passionate professionals evangelizing
the virtues and evils of every variation of estrogen.
Ultimately, the choice to use hormone replacement therapy
resides with you the consumer, your health history and your
budget. Because, while you are busy browsing over hormones,
researchers will still debate whether you are taking
cancerous risks or slowing the aging process.
Sources:
Beral, Valerie; Million Women Study Collaborators. Ovarian
cancer and hormone replacement therapy in the Million Women
Study. The Lancet Early Online Publication; April 19, 2007.
Dunn, LB; M Damesyn, AA Moore, DB Reuben & GA Greendale.
Does estrogen prevent skin aging? Results from the First
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES
I). Archives of Dermatology; March 1997, vol 133, no 3, pp
339 – 342.
International Menopause Society. IMS Reaction to Report on
Breast Cancer Incidence in 2003 in US. April 17, 2007.
International Menopause Society. Response to Lancet Paper
on Ovarian Cancer in the Million Women Study. April 18,
2007.
Ravdin, Peter M et al. The Decrease in Breast-Cancer
Incidence in 2003 in the United States. New England Journal
of Medicine; April 19, 2007 vol 356, no 16, pp 1670-1674.
Sator, Paul-G; Jolanta B Schmidt, Thomas Rabe & Christos C
Zouboulis. Skin aging and sex hormones in women =96 clinical
perspectives for intervention by hormone replacement
therapy. Experimental Dermatology; December 2004, vol 13,
no 4, pg 36-40.
Wolff, Erin F; Deepak Narayan & Hugh S Taylor. Long-term
effects of hormone therapy on skin rigidity and wrinkles.
Fertility and Sterility; August 2005, vol 84, no 2, pp
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About the Author:
Naweko Nicole Dial San-Joyz pioneered the acne trigger
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