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Screening, vaccines and medicines written for women, ordered by age from younger to older.
In data on 1,670,000 (167ไธ) women in Sweden, those vaccinated against HPV before age 17 had only about one-eighth the chance of later getting invasive cervical cancer compared with those not vaccinated. Those vaccinated between 17 and 30 had about half. So the earlier you get it, the more it is worth.
For period pain, taking a drug such as ibuprofen raises the share of people whose pain clearly eases from under two in ten to about half. It works better than acetaminophen, with somewhat more side effects. If the pain keeps you from work or school, hurts deep inside during sex, or isn't controlled after three months of medicine, see a gynecologist to be checked for endometriosis. In a study across 10 countries, this disease went on average 6.7 years from the first symptoms to diagnosis.
In the rural India trial, women who had just one HPV test in their lives were about half as likely to die of cervical cancer, and about half as likely to be found with advanced cervical cancer. At one or two hundred CNY a test, the U.S. recommendation is to test every 5 years.
A mammogram every 2 years for women aged 40 to 74 is explicitly recommended in the official U.S. screening advice. For women 75 and older, and for adding ultrasound or MRI for dense breasts, the official conclusion is that the evidence is not enough. When a checkup package charges extra for those, you can skip them.
For hot flashes and night sweats around menopause, hormone therapy cuts the number of hot flashes by about 75% compared with a placebo. The cost is a little more breast cancer, blood clots and stroke, about 8 more cases of each per 10,000 (1ไธ) women per year. For people who start at age 50 to 59, overall mortality does not rise. It cannot be used to prevent heart disease or dementia.
Women over 65, and women after menopause who have risk factors for osteoporosis, should have their bone density checked once. Checking risk first and then treating the high-risk people reduces hip fractures by about 17%. In numbers, for every 1000 people screened, about 5 fewer have a hip fracture. No change in total death rate was seen.
For postmenopausal women who have been diagnosed with osteoporosis or have broken a bone, taking alendronate reduces hip fractures by about half and symptomatic spine fractures by more than half. For older adults who start a once-a-year infusion after hip fracture surgery, new fractures over 2 years are about 35% fewer. Calcium alone cannot stand in for these drugs.
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