Predicting the age at menopause of women having suffered from childhood cancers
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 01:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers studied the age at menopause of a cohort of 706 women who had suffered from childhood cancer. The data revealed that these women, in particular those who had undergone unilateral oophorectomy or who had been treated with alkylating agents and who had received a radiation dose to the ovaries, were menopaused on average four to seven years earlier than average.