POSTMENOPAUSAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postmenopausal mean? 

• POSTMENOPAUSAL (adjective)
  The adjective POSTMENOPAUSAL has 1 sense:

1. subsequent to menopause

  Familiarity information: POSTMENOPAUSAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTMENOPAUSAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subsequent to menopause

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

menopause (the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends)

 Context examples 

Most patients are postmenopausal, and postmenopausal bleeding is the most frequently seen symptom.

(Fallopian Tube Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also used to prevent and treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

(Evista, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat certain types of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

(Faslodex, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

(Letrozole, NCI Dictionary)

A non-neoplastic disorder that usually affects postmenopausal women.

(Ovarian Stromal Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Hormones (estrogen, progesterone, or both) given to postmenopausal women or to women who have had their ovaries surgically removed.

(Estrogen replacement therapy, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer and to prevent recurrent breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have already been treated with tamoxifen.

(Aromasin, NCI Dictionary)

Aromatase inhibitors are used as a type of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women who have hormone-dependent breast cancer.

(Aromatase inhibitor, NCI Dictionary)

It may also help protect against osteoporosis (thinning of the bones) and lower the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

(ERT, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used with another drug to treat some postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer that is hormone-receptor positive and HER2 negative.

(Afinitor, NCI Dictionary)