Hot flashes not only greatly annoy women during the day, but they can prove a big disruption to sleep. For women suffering hot flashes after cancer treatment, rest is important, but difficult. And breast cancer patients can’t take advantage of hormone replacement therapy because they need to avoid estrogen.

One answer to the problem may be the drug gabapentin, a nonhormonal therapy. It was approved by the FDA to fight seizures, but other uses are becoming common. Gabapentin is widely prescribed to reduce pain.
In a study reported on at the National Cancer Institute website, patients taking gabapentin experienced either a 49% …read more