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Chemotherapy and Menopause
Hi all, I had four rounds of chemo from Jan to April. My period disappeared after my second chemo and hasn't come since. I am 43. Did any of you have this happen to you? If so, did the period ev...
Nadi said:Many chemo drugs destroy our ovaries and therefore we stop producing the hormone oestrogen which affects fertility and periods. That's why a lot of women in their late teens or twenties are sometimes asked to consider freezing their eggs. Lack of oestrogen also effects our moods.
I would be a bit surprised at this. If this is the case then why do I hear so much recurrence, and usually recurrence is due to oestrogen's work, wasn't it?