One of the problems a young woman with breast cancer faces is the fact that so many drugs are specifically indicated for post-menopausal women.
But today it was announced that zoledronic acid (or a drug called Zometa) which is used to treat bone metastases and recently approved to treat osteoporosis proved to significantly reduce the risk of recurrence in early-stage breast cancer for premenopausal women undergoing ovarian suppression and hormone therapy.
Zometa, a drug originally approved by the FDA to treat bone loss in patients undergoing chemotherapy and to reduce bone fractures in osteoporosis patients, might also reduce the risk of disease …read more

I thought we all could benefit from a menopause primer.
Let’s start with a general definition. Menopause is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for 12 months. It starts when a woman’s menstrual cycle starts to vary in length and duration and ends when it is clear that the function of the ovaries have ceased — twelve months after the last menstrual period.
So, a woman with regular periods is considered premenopausal. Once her periods start to become irregular, she’s perimenopausal. Twelve months after her last period, she’s post menopausal.
In natural menopause, the ovaries naturally decrease their production of the sex …read more