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Ovarian Cancer

ERT and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in Women – (04-23-01)

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ERT and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in Women

Not only are we consistently beating down to perceived benefits to HRT, but the list of adverse effects continues to grow. First of all, menopause IS NOT A DISEASE!! You will not find it in any of the pathology books. Second, if you want to lower your risk of heart disease and osteoporosois there are many other ways to do this without increasing your risk for cancer.

Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in a Large Prospective Study of US Women

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HIGH DAIRY INTAKES BY WOMAN PER DAY MAY CAUSE OVARIAN CANCER – (11-21-04)

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Milk and lactose intakes and ovarian cancer risk

Women who drank more than 4 servings of dairy per day had a twofold increased risk for one type of ovarian cancer. For those of us against dairy this just further supports our position. As an aside, do you ever wonder why some articles never make it to the mainstream press?

Milk and lactose intakes and ovarian cancer risk in the Swedish Mammography Cohort — Larsson et al. 80 (5): 1353 — American..

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INCREASING INTAKE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS CONTRIBUTE TO CHRONIC DISEASES – (12-12-05)

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Milk, milk products and lactose intake and ovarian cancer risk

I don’t make this stuff up–I just find it. While this review does not show a strong association, it does show that increasing milk intake does increase your risk of ovarian cancer. As a society, we really need to re-evaluate our fascination w/ dairy. There are few dietary recommendations made that do not include dairy as a part of the equation. It’s association w/ health is incredibly pervasive, despite only a weak benefit at best. At worst, increasing intake of dairy products contribute to chronic diseases.

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DAIRY PRODUCTS MAY CAUSE OVARIAN CANCER – (04-10-06)

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Dairy Products and Ovarian Cancer

While the association between ovarian cancer and 3 servings of dairy per day was not that strong, the fact that any risk was there is of concern given the blind faith we give in dairy products. I have patients that guiltily admit that they don’t drink milk and so are worried about their bone health. I have patients in community health presentations that are astounded that I would even suggest that dairy is not good for us. I will continue to give the dairy industry credit for one of the most phenomenol marketing campaigns in history: getting the American public to religiously believe that dairy is absolutely essential to good health despite very minimal evidence to support this.

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COFFEE, TEA, COLAS, AND RISK OF EPITHELIAL OVARIAN CANCER – (11-17-08)

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Coffee, Tea, Colas, and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Tea, in particular green tea, is well known for is health promoting benefits. This particular study found a 54% reduction in the risk of ovarian cancer with >1 cup per day of green tea consumption. This is a very large reduction in risk for such a simple intervention that would also likely have risk reductions across other disease states.

We live in a society that steadfastly promotes the drinking of 8-10 glass of water per day with literally NO evidence to support this recommendation, and much evidence to support the potential harm in drinking water from plastic bottles contaminated with hundreds of environmental toxicants. I strongly urge patients to abandon the 8-10 glass theory and switch to drinking tea. Switching to 8-10 glasses of green tea has documented health effects across the board of chronic disease risk.

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OVARIAN CONSERVATION PROVIDES LONG TERM HEALTH – (03-08-10)

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Ovarian Conservation at the Time of Hysterectomy and Long-Term Health

This is another one of those studies that smashes down decades-old dogma in health care (i.e. smoking is good for you, HRT prevents heart disease, total cholesterol is associated with heart disease, aspirin a day saves lives..). It has been somewhat standard to remove a woman’s ovaries at the time of hysterectomy because…well…just because.

Unfortunately, this study finds some serious flaws in this approach (in this study, over half the women had their ovaries removed). With the exception of cancers of breast and ovaries, all other indices of mortality went up (all cause, heart disease, other cancers). For women under 50 who had bilateral oopherectomies done and chose not to take HRT, an extra 1 in 9 women will die because of the removal of the ovaries. And to think that these doctors get paid extra to remove the ovaries should be abhorrent given these statistics.

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