Word: estrogenic
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...prove cause and effect. That's not necessarily a problem. No one has ever done a randomized trial of smoking, yet it clearly causes cancer. On the other hand, it was on the basis of good epidemiological evidence that doctors believed for years that long-term use of estrogen and progestin would significantly protect women from heart disease. When the theory was put to the test with a randomized, controlled trial, however, it turned out to be dead wrong...
...strategies take advantage of the fact that some cancers actually show a gender preference. Women who smoke, for example, are three times as likely to develop lung cancer as men who light up, and scientists at Cell Therapeutics found to their surprise that the reason for the difference was estrogen. In the presence of that hormone, which circulates in higher levels in women, lung cells are exposed to more of the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. Harnessing estrogen's ability to speed up some metabolic processes, the scientists piggybacked a potent chemotherapy agent onto a commonly circulating protein, hoping that...
...relationship is essential. “You can establish a deeper relationship by dating someone who agrees with your gender politics,” Goodman said. “You probably wouldn’t be attracted if your politics were radically divergent.” In a predominantly estrogen-centered discussion, male opinion still found a voice. “My girlfriend drives me everywhere,” Kyle A. Krahel ’08 offered. —Staff writer Giselle Barcia can be reached at gbarcia@fas.harvard.edu...
...taking a placebo. The only group of women who had fewer heart incidents were those who were at least 65 years old at the start of the trial. The gender gap could have something to do with the fact that women seem to be protected from heart disease by estrogen until menopause and tend to have heart attacks later than men do. (Low-dose aspirin did reduce the risk of stroke in women of all ages...
...PHYTOESTROGENS Estrogen-like compounds in soy may reduce symptoms, but studies are equivocal and product quality has not been standardized...