Menopause
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- Menopause marks the time of your last menstrual period and it is not considered the last until you have been period-free for 1 year without being ill, pregnant, breast-feeding, or using certain medicines, all of which also can cause menstrual cycles to cease.
- One recent study found that estrogen alone or estrogen plus progestin used on a sequential basis increased the risk of ovarian cancer, while estrogen plus progestin used continuously did not increase ovarian cancer risk.
- You go through menopause immediately if both of your ovaries are also removed at surgery.
- To relieve the symptoms of menopause, doctors may prescribe hormone therapy which can involve the use of either estrogen alone or with another hormone called progesterone, or progestin in its synthetic form.
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