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Re:Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer by jacquesm on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:07PM (#5608415)
It is also possible that due to a mastectomy menopause onset is accelerated.
Re:Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer by rgejman on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:10PM (#5608435)
I wasn't familiar with that. Is that stress-related? Mastectomy without chemo should not induce menopause, as far as I understand the physiological processes at work. If the patients are also being treated with tamoxifen or other estrogen receptor antagonists then the menopause is, I believe, reversible.