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One of the often cited reasons for the difference in breast cancer incidence in Africa compared with Western countries is the difference in environmental risk factors such as diet and physical activity (both contributing to obesity), use of hormones/other medications, and obstetric/gynecological practices [ 6 ] . In the current paper, we present the results of the first study of the association between waist-hip ratio (WHR) and breast cancer in an indigenous African population.
The groups sponsored a celebrity-filled benefit, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, and others performing excerpts from playwright Eve Ensler's off-Broadway Vagina Monologues . Critics' favorite bits: a celebration by Close of the word "cunt" and a pitch by Goldberg for the use of fuzzy stirrups in gynecological exams.
She recently completed a pilot study of 20 women undergoing gynecological surgery.
The remaining controls were seen in a variety of clinics at our institute, including gynecological oncology, hematology, head and neck, radiotherapy, and urology; however the proportion of controls seen at these clinics was less than five percent of all control participants.
From the ovarian sex steroids, the role of diminishing estrogen levels is questionable, since the levator ani muscle fibers do not express estrogen receptor alpha [ 2 26 ] . It is not known if estrogen receptor beta is expressed, but levator ani muscle fibers show nuclear expression of progesterone and androgen receptors [ 26 ] . Altered ovarian function in the premenopause can be observed as early as age 43 years, and includes hyperestrogenism and hypergonadotropism, accompanied by decreased progesterone secretion [ 27 ] . During the transition from pre- to postmenopause both estrogen and androgen levels also decline [ 28 ] . These hormonal alterations may well be responsible for the increased gynecological morbidity that characterizes this period of life, including structural and molecular changes in levator ani muscle and increasing incidence of pelvic floor disorders.
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