Professor Jane Wardle, director of Cancer Research UK's health behaviour unit, said there was a growing body of evidence linking obesity with post menopausal breast cancer.
NexMed's cream, Femprox, is in late-stage trials in China for both pre- and post-menopausal women.
But tamoxifen can cause cancer of the lining of the uterus in post-menopausal women.
There is work to suggest that inflammatory marker levels are different in pre- and post-menopausal women.
This might explain the very noticeable presence of post-menopausal women in the Forbes list.
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Three studies of post-menopausal women show low- fat diets don't prevent heart disease, breast cancer, or colon cancer.
The participants were post-menopausal and had become resistant to certain hormone drugs called aromatase inhibitors that block production of estrogen.
Thursday evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AstraZeneca 's Arimidex for use against early-stage breast cancer in post-menopausal women.
Peri- and post-menopausal women are normally no longer looked upon as carrying the same child-bearing responsibilities (and scheduling complications that come with) as young women.
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The researchers, from the University of Florida in Gainesville, carried out the study after observing that post-menopausal women under hormone replacement therapy were protected against strokes.
The same goes for hormonal replacement therapy for post-menopausal women.
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"Many people are tired much of the time, " women may feel bloated around the time they menstruate, and post-menopausal women commonly have to urinate frequently or more urgently, she said.
These post-menopausal women had somewhat high LDL ("bad" cholesterol), but they were otherwise healthy, with an average age of 56 (that's young) and an average HDL ("good" cholesterol) of 67 (that's high).
Drinking two to three units of alcohol a day, being obese in the post-menopausal period, or having a first pregnancy at a late-age individually all increase the chances of breast cancer more than taking HRT, and even these risk factors contribute to less than half of breast cancer cases.
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