After treatment, does a woman still maintain her natural hormonal cycle?
Robert Rubino: It’s local therapy so it’s right at the lining of the uterus, the site of where a woman bleeds from on a monthly basis so it doesn’t touch the ovaries so it doesn’t interact with or disrupt the hormone cycle. So it won’t give an early menopause in the sense that hot flashes and things, although a lot of women won’t get their period anymore so I guess it would give you somewhat of a surgical-type menopause, but you still enjoy all the benefits of the hormones. And you bring up the issue of PMS which is interesting. One of the things I’m doing currently in my office is an ongoing study on the symptoms of PMS in women who have had the procedure done. And I haven’t published the data yet, it’s just right now my anecdotal experience has been that the PMS symptoms are improved or gone in a lot of these women. And my theory is is that the emotional component of PMS, “Gee, I have my period,” and that plays into the physiologic part of PMS. So the short answer is I think it does
