Menopause

Introduction Southern Comfort is a documentary about Robert Eads, a transgender man. The film documents the final year of Robert’s life, as he was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Robert was turned down for treatment by a dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations or embarrass their patients. By the time Robert received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life and he passed away in 1999, surrounded by his chosen family. Case History Robert…

Many colonial women would go through a constant birth cycle which caused them to become pregnant every two years until death or menopause put a halt to this terrible cycle (Berkin 5). These women on top of being used to repeatedly breed until death would have to take on very demanding tasks. Some of these tasks would include cooking, housework, tending the sick, caring for livestock…

This week while I was researching information for my cohort presentation I found a really interesting article that talked about Breast Cancer. The article I read was from Mayo Clinic which is an organization. The title of the article is Disease and conditions: Breast Cancer by Mayo Clinic Staff. What is Breast Cancer? Breast Cancer is cancer that forms in the cells of the breasts. This cancer, is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States. An interesting fact that I never…

CANCER RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT OVARIAN CANCER SECTION A Ovarian cancer grows in the cells which make up the ovaries; the ovary, fallopian tube, and uterus. These cells are part of the female reproductive system, and are essential in the fertilization of eggs to create a fetus (Ovarian Cancer Alliance, 2014). Cancer is caused by abnormal cells which grow and spread rapidly to other areas of the body through the bloodstream (metastasis). These cells can form a tumor and follow the process of…

Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information; something remembered from the past; a recollection. It is the human ability to encode, store, retain, and subsequently remember information and past encounters. Memory is also the sum total of what we remember. Everyone’s memory is slightly different. (Human-memory.net, 2010) Memory can be effected by things such as illness, age, and accidents but does gender effect human memory? Memory is a function of many sections of…

If I say act like an old person you would hunch over and walk as though you needed a cane, moving as if taking a single step could break your leg. Osteoporosis is a disease of the skeletal system that causes bone deterioration, or the breaking down of bones. Making them fragile and much easier to break than normal. Anyone can developed osteoporosis but generally older women are more prone to developing it. Half of all women and about a quarter of men 50+ years will break at least one bone due to…

husbands. Childbirth came with many dangers and risks for colonial women and the more children a woman had the higher the risk of maternal mortality. A woman was usually pregnant every two years from the time they were married until they reached menopause. Women would often prepare her own burial clothes along with the clothes for the new baby. Midwifery was a occupation that women cornered. When a woman was to give birth the women of the town and a midwife gathered to assist in the birth.…

follow the binary notion of only two genders. However these roles change and evolve and take on different characteristics when the Kung reach an age they consider old. For women that age would be defined when she is no longer able to get pregnant, menopause (Nisa pg. 303). Widowhood is a role that the majority of the women face, only 10% live past 60 and most of those end up widow caused by the age difference between married men and women (Nisa pg. 290). This is the age that some women take up…

Anastrozole is a selective 3rd generation nonsteroidal aromatase Inhibitor [1]. Anastrozole is indicated in treatment of early and advanced breast cancer in post-menopausal women, adjuvant therapy of hormone receptor positive breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer and tenderness of pubertal gynecomastia [2,4,5]. The main type of breast cancer is hormone receptor positive breast cancer, which is caused by an increase of oestrogen levels in the body [3] this is because oestrogen causes an…

In the United States, 1 in 3 women dies from heart disease every year.1 Thus, heart disease is the number one killer of women compared to all cancers combined.1 It is reported that approximately 43 million women in the U.S are affected by heart disease, and about 90 percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease.1 More women die of heart attacks or other heart disease than men, and they are more likely to not get proper treatment compared to men. 2 This risk is even…