ENDOCRINE DILEMMA: Managing menopausal symptoms after breast cancer
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ENDOCRINE DILEMMA: Managing menopausal symptoms after breast cancer.
Managing the symptoms of menopause after a diagnosis of breast cancer offers some unique clinical challenges. For some women, vasomotor symptoms can be severe and debilitating, and hormone therapy is at least relatively contraindicated. Non-oestrogen therapies for hot flushes include SSRIs, clonidine, gabapentin and perhaps black cohosh extracts. Vulvovaginal atrophy can usually be alleviated b...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Endocrinology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0804-4643,1479-683X
DOI: 10.1530/eje-15-0814