European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Undergoing menopause by Linda Stowell associated press a Sharp increase in he number of women in he United sales More than 40years old foretells the emergence Otmen pause As a significant Heairn Issue. To Dale he United slates has not recognized the significance of to general aging of our society particularly As it at Fecit women according to of. Philip m. Sarrel. Associate professor of obstetrics and by Nocolo at Yate g school of Medicine in new Haven Conn. In contrast Sarrel said european countries Are a full decade or More ahead of americans in research into menopause. We re Way behind because we Are a youth oriented country barrel said. For example the danish attitude is that 50 is the beginning of the Best time of your Lite. These ate countries which Are socialized and have National programs Tot retirement. They look at mid life As an important Elmo to be Well Sarrel said. Many european cities have More menopause clinics than there Are in Allol the United states according to or. Isaac sch Al who works at the menopause clinic at Brigham & women s Hospital in Boston which is affiliated with Harvard medical school. Menopause will become important to society in the coming years because of the general aging in our advances in mammography by Gayle Young United press International a newly announced technological advancement that will decrease the dose of radiation used in mammography has doctors hoping More women Wils opt for the procedure that can select breast cancer at its earliest stages mammography which uses a rays to screen for tutors has been touted for Over a decade by Ibe american cancer society As a Way to detect breast cancer while it is still treatable but the organization estimates Only 13 percen of women at risk for breast cancer id Ergo mammography on a regular basis. There is still a great concern in the minds of Many women about having an a Ray said or Arthur i. Hotter of lha cancer society yet he doses Are so Tow now ii s negligible if it s a threat at when a smog Mph Wai first introduced in the 1960s, the radiation dose was High enough for physicians and patients to worry that the screening procedure was More dangerous Han beneficial Holleb said. Al he Lime a. Mammography exposed women to 8 rods a unit of measurement Lor radiation. Technological advances in a rays and film has lowered that to .06 rads and in Early May the Eastman Kodak co announced another technological breakthrough that will lower the dose of radiation from mammography id .02 rads. We have to convince american women thai mammography is Safe and extremely beneficial said Holleb. In some cases we have to convince their physicians As the cancer society recommends that women aged 10 to 50 have a mammography every two years and women Over 50 years undergo the procedure annually. The society also recommends women have a preliminary mammography sometime around their 35th birthday arid that women with a history of breast cancer in their families Start annual screening in their 30s. 1t� to majority of american women forego lha a Ray procedure and rely on self examinations to screen Lor the deadly disease. Health clinics and physicians have urged women Lor years to examine their breasts every month for lumps that could be a warning sign of cancer. Holleb and other doctors interviewed said self examinations Are valuable but said women and physicians cannot eel a Lump until it is at least a centimetre in size. It is vital to tend the tumor when it is smaller than a pea because it is at this size that there is a 90 percent Chance for a said or. A. Christine Watt director of mammography at the Henry Ford Hosp Lial in Detroit. This is perhaps Fiva or six years before in has grown to the tar More dangerous Point at which it can be Felt As a the doctors said a rays can find evidence of breast cancer at its earliest stages Belore it has time to spread to Lymph glands and other organs of the body. The slogan often quoted by doctors supporting mammography is we can see it before you can feel it Many women and doctors too think of mammography As something you do after you have Felt a Lump said Holleb. It s not a diagnostic procedure by a detective the my reason mammography has not caught on however May be a question of economics rather than a question of health. A Mammogram in the United states costs Between s150 to $180. And the procedure is not covered by most health insurance plans unless a Lump is detected first. A Pap smear Lor tha detection of cervical cancer Only costs a couple of dollars so women agree to have ii done every year said Holleb. When you re talking about hundreds of dollars then women think hosted and Watt said some women avoid mammography because they fear what May happen in cancer is detected. To get people to do something you have to offer a Reward said Holleb. Telling a woman it you do this we May find something and have to Cut off your breast is not a doctor my the recovery it for breast cancer is Over 90 percent if it is caught in the Early stages. Then it can usually be treated with limited surgery and radiation therapy. It breast cancer is left untreated and begins to spread to other organs the survival rats drops to 59 percent according to the american cancer society. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women alter lung cancer and one out of 11 american women will develop it in her lifetime according to a society report. Schifle said. In addition to the Yale and Harvard clinics other leading menopause clinics exist Al mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland the University of Florida at Gainesville and Tho University of California at los Angeles Sarrel said. According to ctn Tut Bureau Ifalia Ilca the number o women older than 40 in 1980 was 47.7 million or about 40 percent of a total of 1 16.5 million females. By the year 2000, the Bureau predicts the projected number of women above 40 will jump to 63.6 million nearly half of the Tola of 137,r, million. The 1960 census showed 33.4 million women older than 40, about one third of the total of 91 million females. The average age at which women undergo menopause is 51, Sarrel said. Sarrel defines menopause As the Lime of the last menstrual flow when the capacity Lor the eggs to develop for reproduction is shifting and the ovaries Are Laking on new it s also the Elmo when a woman produces a Low level of the hormone oestrogen from her ovaries and a High level of pituitary hormone. Menopause s symptoms can include hot flashes. Memory loss depression. Irritability headaches and drying of vaginal tissues caused by a drop in tha oestrogen level to explained. Sarrel said men also undergo some sexual changes As they age but doctors have done Little research in the area. There is no name Lor the change and Sanel said the phrase male menopause Isnoel accurate. Sarrel opened his clinic last october altar studying menopause Al a clinic he helped open at Oxford University in England in 1975. He plans to study 1uo women Over the next two years under a $500,000 research Grant from the National Insl tute of aging. Sarrel said he Hopes his findings will show that the change in the nervous system thai occurs at the time of menopause can be reversed. Or. Richard l. Sprott associate director for blamed local research and clinical Medicine at the National Institute of aging in Bethesda my. Said the reason we think menopause is an Issue Worth supporting is because it s a major event for of swing woman and there Are a number of changes which take place during and shortly after menopause thai have significant or a Sib Evoril Lump of women undergoing menopause. In a severe Case he said a woman who suffers from a Short term memory loss might become afraid of leaving her Home Shell go to the supermarket and does t feel that she can go through the aisles. She panics and walks out. This fear becomes exaggerated to the Point where she won t leave the House sorrel said. Some women feel a change in their sense of touch1 Sarrel said a violinist almost lost her Job because she could not my the violin to play it. But with hormone he Rajab fe9ai we har Sensa 0 toll h and kept the most dramatic Way they see the loss of touch is i women we re seeing have some kind of sex problem yet Only one filth had sex problems s p3"6"1? who requested that her old had Rvl " a w so 3ielmh f
