PERIMENOPAUSE AND GYNECOLOGIC CANCERS
Dr Steven R. Goldstein is a Perimenopause Specialist in NYC, located in the Midtown area. Perimenopause is the transitional time into menopause and usually occurs in women in their late thirties to late forties. The hallmark of Perimenopause is irregularity in bleeding and other symptoms that women will never associate with their menstrual cycle. Heavy bleeding episodes can be scary. Many of Dr Goldstein’s patients fear cancer immediately. However, the fact is that if you are a woman in the perimenopause phase, you are statistically not a high risk for any of the gynecological cancers. The untimely death of Gilda Radner from ovarian cancer and her husband Gene Wilder’s relentless public relations campaign did a tremendous amount o enhance the awareness – and the anxiety – of the American public about ovarian cancer. If you have no family history of ovarian cancer, your chances of getting it at all are low. Your chances of being diagnosed with it now, in perimenopause are even lower. Eighty percent of ovarian cancers involve women over fifty.