Sentences with phrase «common type of estrogen»

There is one difference — belly fat produces an enzyme called aromatase that seeks out free testosterone in the bloodstream and converts it to estradiol — the most common type of estrogen.

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BPA, a common component of plastics used to contain food, is a type of estrogen that is ubiquitous in the environment.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a protein that can be targeted to suppress growth of a common type of breast cancer known as «estrogen receptor positive» (ER +), including ER + cancers that are resistant to standard treatments.

Depending on characteristics such as how many tumor cells, blood vessel cells, and immune cells are touching each other, the tumor microenvironment can nearly triple the chance that a common type of breast cancer (estrogen - receptor positive / HER2 negative) that has reached the lymph nodes will also metastasize, Condeelis and colleagues showed in a 2014 study of 3,760 patients.

This is the most common type of breast cancer, and it means that the cancer is fueled, at least in part, by estrogen.

Doctors often prescribe combination birth control pills (which are the most common type and contain both estrogen and progestin) because they can lower the body's levels of androgen, a hormone that helps produce oils in the skin, says Dr. Chen.