Lobular breast cancer accounts for 1 in 6 cases of breast cancer, but has not been studied until very recently. It is often missed on mammograms. Https://lobularbreastcancer.org
Thank you for this timely report on women’s health. No you cannot extrapolate data from men’s research studies to women and make it fit unless you also include women in the study. Cardiovascular disease is one such illness that presents in a different fashion for women than for men. Autoimmune diseases are more common in women. Take celiac disease for example, it’s more common in girls and women than in boys and men. It also affects females differently than males where women have more problems with iron deficiency anemia, abdominal pain and fertility issues where males are likely to have symptoms not related to the gastrointestinal tract. Weight loss, liver malfunction and itchy rashes are more commonly found in male celiac patients. In children you often find delayed puberty, stunted growth and GI symptoms. So there you have it symptoms aren’t necessarily the same in both sexes for many diseases. Also, clinical trials for new therapeutic drugs also should take sex of the patient into account because men and women metabolize drugs at a different rate due to many factors such as genetics, age, hormones etc. Even body composition can have an effect. Women and men don’t even metabolize alcohol at the same rate because women produce less Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme in their stomachs and livers than men do. Therefore they get intoxicated much faster than men. It’s vitally important that enough women are included in clinical research studies to better determine how best to treat them for common and uncommon diseases. Specialized medicine should have already been the future of newer therapeutics.
I totally agree. I'm 74 and have had years of seeing male physicians who had no idea about my health issues and, instead of doing some research, simply ignored my questions and issues. I was hyperthyroid for decades which caused my heart to race. I once had a male doctor double check my heart rate and then tell me that I must have been anxious because I was at the doctor's office. Male doctors told me that I had sinus headaches (they were actually migraines) and I won't even begin to describe the looks on their faces when I described the visual auras. One of the many reasons women have been excluded from medical studies is because of our monthly periods - times of hormonal changes that medical researchers didn't want to deal with. Luckily, there are now many female doctors and I regularly choose female doctors, and younger doctors because older doctors seem to be set in their ways.
Amen! Please see our book Women & Health just out in print, a compendium on all aspects of women's health research. We put this together exactly for the reasons you write about.
The patriarchal ideology is deeply embedded in Western civilization
Lobular breast cancer accounts for 1 in 6 cases of breast cancer, but has not been studied until very recently. It is often missed on mammograms. Https://lobularbreastcancer.org
Thank you for this timely report on women’s health. No you cannot extrapolate data from men’s research studies to women and make it fit unless you also include women in the study. Cardiovascular disease is one such illness that presents in a different fashion for women than for men. Autoimmune diseases are more common in women. Take celiac disease for example, it’s more common in girls and women than in boys and men. It also affects females differently than males where women have more problems with iron deficiency anemia, abdominal pain and fertility issues where males are likely to have symptoms not related to the gastrointestinal tract. Weight loss, liver malfunction and itchy rashes are more commonly found in male celiac patients. In children you often find delayed puberty, stunted growth and GI symptoms. So there you have it symptoms aren’t necessarily the same in both sexes for many diseases. Also, clinical trials for new therapeutic drugs also should take sex of the patient into account because men and women metabolize drugs at a different rate due to many factors such as genetics, age, hormones etc. Even body composition can have an effect. Women and men don’t even metabolize alcohol at the same rate because women produce less Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme in their stomachs and livers than men do. Therefore they get intoxicated much faster than men. It’s vitally important that enough women are included in clinical research studies to better determine how best to treat them for common and uncommon diseases. Specialized medicine should have already been the future of newer therapeutics.
I totally agree. I'm 74 and have had years of seeing male physicians who had no idea about my health issues and, instead of doing some research, simply ignored my questions and issues. I was hyperthyroid for decades which caused my heart to race. I once had a male doctor double check my heart rate and then tell me that I must have been anxious because I was at the doctor's office. Male doctors told me that I had sinus headaches (they were actually migraines) and I won't even begin to describe the looks on their faces when I described the visual auras. One of the many reasons women have been excluded from medical studies is because of our monthly periods - times of hormonal changes that medical researchers didn't want to deal with. Luckily, there are now many female doctors and I regularly choose female doctors, and younger doctors because older doctors seem to be set in their ways.
Amen! Please see our book Women & Health just out in print, a compendium on all aspects of women's health research. We put this together exactly for the reasons you write about.
Rebecca Troisi