Endocrine Abstracts

‘Androgen replacement therapy’ is a term loosely used in the medical and lay literature, however in the context of this discussion it will be limited to the use of testosterone as a pharmacotherapy. Furthermore, whether the term ‘hypogonadal’ includes naturally menopausal women can also be considered contentious, as the postmenopausal ovary is an ongoing source of sex steroids and thus in the strictest terms such women are not necessarily hypogonadal. Indee...

‘This house believes that androgen replacement therapy, to get things going, should be offered to every hypogonadal woman’.In opposing this motion, I shall review the advantages and disadvantages of androgen replacement therapy and draw attention to the folly of offering treatment to every hypogonadal women....