New York - The Use of testosterone patches in postmenopausal women offers some benefit in improving sexual function, notes a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The product, called Intrinsa is currently available in Europe, but not the US or Canada.
According to the study, a dose of 300 milligrams of testosterone a day can improve on sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women.
“There was an increase in desire, arousal organisms and a reduction in distress, making it a meaningful treatment for women,” one of the study’s authors, Dr. Michelle Moreau of the Salisbury Clinic in the United Kingdom said.
The researchers noted adverse effects including unwanted hair growth and achne.
Four women also developed breast cancer within a year after the study.
“We do not know if the testosterone patch contributed to proliferation or metastasis of the breast cancer in women diagnosed in the earlier months of the study, potentially affecting their long-term survival,” says Leslie R. Schover, Ph.D., a behavioral scientist at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, who recently wrote an article analyzing research on testosterone for low libido. “A valid safety study needs at least a five-year follow-up period in a large, randomized trial. If women use Intrinsa without such a trial, I believe they are risking their lives to gain a very modest increase in sexual desire.”
The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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just some fella
so … just to be clear: post-meno women can improve their libido, at the cost of increased risk of breast cancer and death.
this is even sicker than that viagra crap for men: better erections at the cost of going blind.
Nov 7th, 2008
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