CeMCOR - Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research

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(CeMCOR) has online health resources for women of every age.

Menopause Progesterone vaso-motor Study. Click here for details.

There is also a Young Women and Osteoporosis forum accessible from the main page. See their website www.cemcor.ubc.ca. Professor, researcher and scientist Dr. Jerilynn Prior is the Scientific Director.

Are you egglessly cycling?

There are a number of reproductive disturbances that often go undetected because they occur silently within a woman’s menstrual cycle. Anovulatory cycles are menstrual cycles in which bleeding occurs without an egg being released.  If you don’t want to get pregnant, does ovulation matter? Unfortunately, infertility isn’t the only issue at stake. When ovulation doesn't occur, the unhealthy hormone imbalance that occurs is related to bone loss, heavy flow, and anemia in otherwise healthy young women., and it may also increase the risk for breast and endometrial (uterine lining) cancers and heart disease later in life.

To address the current gaps in our knowledge about ovulation and to empower women with information to assess their own reproductive cycles, the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR) launched the Menstruation and Ovulation Study (MOS). MOS is a women’s health research initiative that is funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).

JOIN US!

CeMCOR is actively still enrolling participants for the Menstruation and Ovulation Study. We welcome any woman who fits the following criteria to join our study and find out more about their reproductive cycle.
Are you a woman who:

• Has menstruated within the last 3 months?
• Has not used oral contraceptives or hormones within 3 months?
• Has not had a hysterectomy?
• Is between the ages of 20 and 40?

What is involved in the study?

• An initial interview session (should take between 30 to 45 minutes) and a final interview (should take less than 10 minutes).
• Keeping a Menstrual Cycle Diary© during the course of one menstrual cycle.
• Collecting 5 urine samples (at home) two weeks preceeding your period .

For more information or to participate in this research, please call 604-875-5960 or email Shirin.Kalyan@vch.ca or go to the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research website  at www.cemcor.ubc.ca.

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