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	Using Hormones for Sport Both professional and non-professional athletes take performance-enhancing drugs. They can be dietary supplements, growth hormone, anabolic steroids or designer compounds that escape detection by doping tests. These substances affect muscle strength, endurance and the ability to pump blood, oxygenate muscles and breathe. They are sometimes called roids, stacks, andro and juice. Doctors say that these drugs can cause serious side effects such as low sperm count, breast enlargement, carpal tunnel syndrome and can decrease good HDL cholesterol and put people at risk for cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and even death.

	Know Your Target: Treating Hormone-Driven Breast Cancer When a woman is diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, one of the first things doctors want to determine is the estrogen and progesterone receptor status of the cancer. In nearly two-thirds of breast cancers, estrogen and progesterone can stimulate cancer growth and determining the cancer's receptor status at the time of original biopsy can help doctors determine which course of therapy will be most effective. If a woman's breast cancer is estrogen receptor positive, there are a number of strategies to reduce, block or eliminate estrogen in her body. Surgical techniques include prophylactic oophorectomy (removal of ovaries) and ovarian suppression (shutting down ovaries). Hormonal treatments include using a class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors, which include letrozole (Femara), anastrozole (Arimidex) and exemestane (Aromasin), or the use of tamoxifen (Nolvadex) or fulvestrant (Faslodex). For women whose tumors are estrogen receptor negative, chemotherapy agents

	Next Steps After a Diagnosis Coping with a diagnosis of a serious disease or condition depends on taking time to handle difficult emotions like stress, anger, confusion, denial, and confusion. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, recommends: take the time you need; enlist a support network, or an advocate; talk things over with your doctor, including the possibility of seeking a second opinion; research your disease or condition, at the library, through the internet, with the assistance of national organizations, and with information available from the U.S. government; and finally, developing a treatment plant.
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