Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hot Flashes - A Good Sign For Cancer Patients

Hot flashes are common menopause symptoms from which many women who have reached menopause suffer occasionally. But it can also be of some benefits in the life of many women. If you are wondering how, then here it is.
According to a study that was published in recent times, it is indicated that the hot flashes are actually good for women who are suffering from breast cancer. This is because, according to some oncologists, it actually proves that the chemotherapy has been beneficial for these women who are suffering from the cancer of breast.
The treatments of the breast cancer also affect the menopausal symptoms in the women including the occurrences of the problem. Therefore, if any woman is suffering from cancer of breast, she should immediately speak to her health care expert regarding what to expect in the menopausal symptoms.
However, the researchers who made this discovery were not trying to find a correlation between successful chemotherapy and hot flashes while they conducted their studies on the women having breast cancer and treated with tamoxifen or anstrozole.
According to these scientists, if the women who are suffering from breast cancer and are on medication such as tamoxifen or anstrozole develop symptoms like hot flashes, general sweating or night sweats after taking the medicines, then these women have much lower risk of a renewal of breast cancer. But those women, who do not have these symptoms, might get the cancer back in their bodies.
These researchers further found out that those women who experience joint pain also has a lower risk of getting cancer again. They also concluded that those women who experience both joint pain and the hot flashes, they have 47% lesser chance of getting cancer for the second time.
But these researchers had no explanation why these hot flashes and the joint pains mean the decrease in the risk of the returning of the breast cancer. They suggested that perhaps the genetics and the drug processing mechanisms in the bodies of these women are the factors that are responsible for this.
This new information about the benefit of this problem in the life of the breast cancer patients having medications, have brought rays of hope and relief in the lives of those women who are battling with breast cancer and the side effects that come with the treatment of this disease.
Now, they can be happy with the information that if they have this male menopause-related problem that mean the risk of recurrence of the deadly disease is low.

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