The term progestogen refers to a class of substances that includes the natural progesterone in our bodies and synthetic progestins used in hormone treatment. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
The other type is called the progestogen-only pill (POP), or the "mini-pill". ❋ Unknown (1995)
Implanon is a long-acting contraceptive implant containing the active ingredient etonogestrel, a synthetic progestogen. ❋ Sten Stovall (2011)
Last year the Food and Drug Administration approved Depo-Provera, an injection of the synthetic hormone progestogen: taken once every three months, it prevents ovulation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Norplant works the same way, except that its progestogen is released more slowly, with fewer side effects. ❋ Unknown (2008)
More important, the risk of breast cancer climbs with longer-term use of hormones (particularly estrogen plus progestogen), which eventually tips the overall benefit-risk balance into unfavorable territory for most women. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Unless you've had a hysterectomy, you should take progestogen along with estrogen to prevent uterine cancer. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For example, adding a little more progestogen in your contraceptive cocktail often does the trick. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That was the conclusion of Dr James Higham of Roehampton University in London and his colleagues after finding high levels of progestogen during this period in faecal samples from baboons at Gashaka-Gumti National Park. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Women who have problems with effects from the progestogen such as headaches, mood swings, and depression sometimes find the cyclic method easier to tolerate. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
There is, however, no evidence that one kind of estrogen or progestogen is safer or more effective than another. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
It can refer to the use of estrogen alone or to a combination of estrogen and a progestogen or a combination of estrogen and an androgen a form of testosterone. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
Estrogen or combined estrogen and progestogen treatment has not been shown to: ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
For women taking an estrogen and progestogen combination, a single pill can include both hormones or they can be in separate pills. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
A few had raised warning flags as early as the 1950s,4 and the concern grew more intense in the mid-1970s when two studies linked estrogen to endometrial cancer.5 But researchers soon discovered that adding a progestogen to estrogen “combined treatment” reduced this risk. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
In the continuous method, a progestogen is included every day. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
Estrogen-only and estrogen plus progestogen also relieve the vaginal dryness and thinning of the tissue in the vagina that women may experience after menopause.25 When our vaginas are dry and the skin there is thin, sexual contact may be uncomfortable or even painful. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)
