Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Overview
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University Of Virginia Physicians Group
Joann Pinkerton is an Obstetrics and Gynecologist in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Pinkerton is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Her top areas of expertise are Menopause, Postmenopausal Osteoporosis, Premature Ovarian Failure, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Salpingo-Oophorectomy. Dr. Pinkerton is currently accepting new patients.
Skip Viragh Outpatient Cancer Center
Dr. Samuel Denmeade is the R. Dale Hughes Professor of Oncology and Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Genitourinary Oncology Division for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. He also has appointments in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences and Department of Biomolecular Engineering. His areas of clinical expertise include bladder cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Dr. Denmeade earned his M.D. from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He completed his residency at the University of Chicago. He performed a fellowship in oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in medical oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research interests include prostate cancer, bipolar androgen therapy, clinical trials and targeted drug development. Dr. Denmeade has published over 200 papers in the area of prostate cancer research. He has received extensive funding from the NIH, the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Fund and the Prostate Cancer Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal The Prostate. Dr. Denmeade is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). His top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Prostatectomy.
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Dr. Channing J. Paller is a medical oncologist at Sibley Memorial Hospital and a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She practices out of the Prostate Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Paller has expertise in prostate, bladder, kidney, and testicular cancer. Dr. Paller earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine, followed by a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Paller completed a rotation with the chief of the Investigational Drug Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program and a rotation with the associate director for regulatory science in the Office of Oncology Drug Products at the Food and Drug Administration. She also completed rotations at the Weizmann Institute of Israel’s Department of Biological Regulation and McCord Hospital in South Africa, where she participated in the Harvard AIDS project. In 2016, Dr. Paller was one of only five oncologists awarded the NCI Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award. In 2015, she received the 2015 Passano Clinician Scientist Award for early-stage research that is already making a contribution to science. Earlier in her career, she was selected for both a 2011-2012 Young Investigator Award by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and for the 2011-12 Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Paul Carbone Award. Dr. Paller is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Association for Cancer Research. Dr. Paller’s research focuses on evaluating new therapies for prostate cancer, particularly combination therapies that engage the immune system. She is the principal investigator on two multi-site clinical trials and was the first author on the NCI Investigational Drug Steering Committee publication, “Consensus Recommendations on the Phase I Combination Clinical Trials of the Clinical Trial Design Task Force.” Dr. Paller was the chair for the oral abstract session on genitourinary cancer at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and she is currently funded by an NCI immunotherapy grant to look at combination therapies that link standard of care therapy with inhibition of transforming growth factor beta in prostate cancer. She is also opening trials of vitamin C with chemotherapy in prostate cancer and of mistletoe in all solid tumors. Dr. Paller is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Her top areas of expertise are Prostate Cancer, Familial Prostate Cancer, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and Prostatectomy.
Summary: One of the standard treatments for women with breast cancer is hormone therapy, but this treatment can cause hot flashes. Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, is most often prescribed for hot flashes for women in menopause but cannot be given to women on hormone therapy for breast cancer. Fezolinetant, an alternative to HRT, treats hot flashes for women in menopause. As hot flashes happen in the s...
Summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether growth hormone replacement therapy (GHRT) is effective versus placebo in the improvement of Quality of Life in patients with adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

