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Childhood Cancer Survivors Prone to Early Menopause
Treatment-related ovarian damage may be to blame, researchers say
WEDNESDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- Female survivors of childhood cancer are more likely to experience early menopause than other women, a U.S. study finds.
Reporting in the July 5 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City studied the incidence and risk factors for premature menopause in more than 2,800 women who were childhood cancer survivors. They then compared that data to information on premature menopause from 1,065 female siblings of childhood cancer survivors.
Early menopause occurred in 126 childhood cancer survivors and in 33 of the siblings, the study found. Non-surgical, premature menopause was more common among childhood cancer survivors. The cumulative incidence of premature menopause was nearly 30 percent among cancer patients who'd been treated with both abdominal-pelvic radiation and alkylating chemotherapy.
The study concluded that age, radiation to the ovaries, a diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, and treatment with alkylating chemotherapy increased the risk of early menopause in childhood cancer survivors.
"The results of this study will facilitate counseling current survivors about their future risk of premature menopause and will aid in designing new regimens that seek to diminish late ovarian toxicity," the study authors wrote.
A Minnesota study indicates that the dangerous abnormal heartbeat called atrial fibrillation is much more common than previously thought.
The current estimate that 2.2 million Americans have atrial fibrillation has to be drastically revised upward, to 5.1 million, concludes a report in the July 4 issue of Circulation by physicians at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
What's more, if current trends continue, the investigators are predicting a threefold increase in the condition over the next five decades, with as many as 16 million Americans affected by 2050.
That prediction was based on a 21-year study of more than 4,600 adults in Olmsted County, Minn., home of the Mayo Clinic.
"We found a significant increase in the number of people who newly developed this rhythm problem over the past two decades in Olmsted County, and this increase was not just because people were living longer," senior researcher Dr. Teresa S. M. Tsang, an associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, said in a prepared statement.
In atrial fibrillation, the upper chambers of the heart quiver irregularly rather than beating steadily. The clots that form as blood pools in the heart can then move to the brain, causing stroke as they block blood vessels there. Atrial fibrillation is associated with other major problems, including heart failure.
The report said the reason for the increase was not clear, but that the growing incidence of obesity probably plays a large role.
As for the current estimate of 2.2 million Americans, that was based on a study of members of a health plan. The new estimate is more accurate, the research team said, because it comes out of a large population study.
In addition, the Minnesota population included a larger percentage of whites, who are typically at higher risk of atrial fibrillation than other ethnic groups, according to the experts.
The study is an "important, newsworthy paper," said Dr. Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, a professor of cardiology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a spokesman for the American Heart Association. No other study of atrial fibrillation has followed so many Americans for such a long period, he said.
"We need to concentrate a lot more on primary prevention, or we will have an even bigger epidemic," Ellenbogen warned.
The Mayo researchers also concluded the same thing.
"We need to prevent the first episode of atrial fibrillation and the risk factors contributing to its development if we are to turn the tide of this growing epidemic," Tsang said.
"I would concentrate on high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes," Ellenbogen said.
