The consumer giant has linked up with Noven Pharmaceuticals, a Miami outfit that already makes an FDA-approved two-hormone patch for women in menopause.
"We've done a series of trials over the last 10 years or so looking at ways of treating women in menopause and with breast cancer, " said Loprinzi, who is professor and chair of medical oncology at Mayo.
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At a global summit held in Zurich by the International Menopause Society, experts concluded younger healthy women should have no fears about taking HRT in the first few years of menopause to relieve symptoms.
However, this has side effects similar to the menopause in women - resulting in poor bone health and diabetes.
The CRC spokeswoman added that such a treatment would have to be taken long-term to have any chance of holding back the menopause in older women.
Evidence for this comes from two studies which found a greater risk of lung cancer among women who underwent the menopause late in life, and those who had short menstrual cycles.
Unfortunately, there is no way for a woman to know in advance exactly when her menopause will occur.
Doctors who specialize in treating the symptoms of menopause say they're increasingly left with an empty bag of tricks.
The latest guidelines are published in a new RCOG book, Menopause and Hormone Replacement.
Years ago, in addition to providing relief for menopause symptoms, hormone therapy was thought to offer protection against cardiovascular problems, osteoporosis and dementia, so doctors routinely prescribed it to otherwise healthy women.
He reasoned that harmful mutations which have their effect before the menopause (or, in the more sophisticated version, before the last child has fled the nest) will be eliminated by natural selection.
"A lot of the doctors are confused as well, " says Dr. Wulf Utian, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a consultant in obstetrics and gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic.
Cancer of the womb is the fourth most common cancer in women and tends to occur after the menopause.
It showed a 61% decrease in heart attacks for women who took hormones after menopause.
In rich countries the average woman goes through the menopause at the age of 50, but it is not unusual for it to happen as early as 42 or as late as 58.
Dr Anne MacGregor, who runs the menopause clinic at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, feels women are not being given the option of weighing up the risk-benefit ratio themselves.
Hadas has transformed the symptoms of menopause into a company that is creating manufacturing jobs in Rhode Island (the cases) and in Pennsylvania (the gel packs).
Hormone therapy was introduced in the 1960s and was widely prescribed to manage symptoms of menopause under the assumption that it provided other benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease.
This is what she means: Before 2002, it was practically standard operating procedure to put women on synthetic hormones as soon as they reached menopause. ("We were putting them in the drinking water, " jokes Healy.).
The greater the interval between menarche and menopause, the greater the number of menstrual cycles with spikes in exposure to these hormones.
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Monique Francis, from the Daisy Network in the UK, which supports women who have been through a premature menopause, said the discovery could help women who have no idea why they suffered a premature menopause.
In France, it is illegal for any woman to have fertility treatment after the menopause.
The average age of women participating in the Women's Health Initiative was 64 years, well past the age that menopause usually begins.
"These are women who don't have disease, who don't have menopause symptoms, who are using the therapies only to prevent something that might happen in the future, " said Bibbins-Domingo, an associate professor of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
This comes on top of new evidence that Prozac, Paxil and other antidepressants cause suicidal thoughts in children and recent findings that hormone replacement therapy, touted for decades as a panacea for menopause, could increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer and dementia.
For Jean Toth of Cleveland, going through menopause was bad enough, but the worst part came afterward: She lost all interest in sex.
In one study, young breast cancer survivors reported skin sensitivity, vaginal dryness, genital pain, premature menopause, fertility issues and extreme fatigue.
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