Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the diseases causing the most deaths in women worldwide. Obesity, especially in postmenopausal women is a definite risk factor due to hormonal imbalance mainly to the levels of circulating oestrogen. The aim was to record levels for some gonadal axis hormones in breast cancer treated obese women.Patients and methods: 81 women aged between 21 and 80 years 54 are diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) during postmenopausal ...

We report a 29 year old man (staff nurse) who initially presented with a grand mal seizure in October-2003 to the neurologists. A preliminary diagnosis of epilepsy was made, though the subsequent EEG only revealed predisposition to epilepsy. In December 2004 he again presented with a grand mal seizure despite being on Epilim. He also complained of episodes of lethargy, sweating and inability to concentrate towards the end of his shifts at work for a few months prior to this. B...