Part of the pleasure in sex for women is the experience within her vagina, whose elasticity and thickness are maintained by oestrogen. After the menopause, a thinning drying vagina can be a bar to sexual enjoyment. Orgasm, however, is maintained by another hormone altogether. When a women has an orgasm, her womb contracts. Intrauterine pressures [...]
Probably the most used of these other treatments is brachytherapy. Brachytherapy has a long history, dating from 1909, when Parisian doctors Pasteau and Degrais reported their use of radium capsules, which they planted into the urethra of men with prostate cancer. The capsules were soon replaced by radium needles inserted into the cancers themselves, so [...]
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