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Melanoma and Menopause.
Menopause may protect women against melanoma.
Dr. Frederick C. Beddingfield reported the results of an analysis of three large cancer registries at the annual meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology.
The overall incidence of melanoma increased yearly with age--by 3.1% for people under age 40 years, 3.2% for those aged 40-59, and 5.5% after age 60.
"By the end of life, women have one-third the rate of men," noted Dr. Beddingfield, a doctoral fellow at the University of California, Irvine.
The cause of the perimenopausal plateau is unknown, but it could relate to a transient hormonal or menopausal influence, the waning of a premenopausal hormone, or a cohort-specific ...
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- Newspaper article from: Angiogenesis Weekly August 21, 2009 700+ words
...colleagues, Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Division of Medical Oncology (see also Melanoma Therapy). The researchers...PD0325901 in malignant melanoma with or without BRAF...Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Division of Medical...Keywords: Italy, Rome, Melanoma Therapy, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Melanoma and Menopause.