Can the natural hormone progesterone help prevent lung cancer?

Lung cancer affects women with almost as much frequency as it does men, and it seems more non-smoker women may end up with lung cancer than non-smoker men.

Nearly 72,000 American women will die of lung cancer this year. That's more than are killed by breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers combined.

Men's lung cancer rates have been steadily falling since 1991. Women's rates have stayed the same.

Why?

Dr. Kathy Albain, a lung cancer specialist at Loyola University Health System, and University of Pittsburgh pharmacologist Jill Siegfried, a pioneer in the field, think they know the answer.

Estrogen.

These researchers believe estrogen may act as a fuel for lung tumors just like it does for many breast tumors, and that blocking estrogen with the same drugs that breast cancer patients use might also work in the lungs.

An alternative to drugs to reduce unchecked estrogens in a woman's body may be as simple as rubbing a cream containing progesterone onto her skin. Progesterone is the "other" sex hormone, the one that men and women both share.

Research has shown that many estrogen-caused diseases in women may be slowed or eliminated with a progesterone regimen.

I've personally seen dozens of women find benefit in using a progesterone cream to stop insomnia, night sweats, moodiness and other PMS and menopause symptoms, as well as to balance blood sugar irregularities.

Progesterone cream should be purchased in a tube, not a jar, as excess air and light may cause the naturally-occuring hormone to break down prematurely. Progesterone cream is available over-the-counter without a prescription.

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