1.   Menopausal women sometimes complain that with the cessation of ovarian function their femaleness is being stripped from them.

2.   The demonstration by ultrasound of a resumption of follicular activity presages the return of normal ovarian function, which occurs in patients who regain and maintain a normal weight.

3.   And he also has not yet accepted women with breast cancer because he fears that restoring ovarian functions in these women might set off a recurrence of their cancer.

4.   And because it suppresses ovarian function, it can put an end to the menstrual period.

5.   Many of the modern chemotherapeutic agents are less damaging to ovarian function than the older drugs and do not induce permanent early menopause.

6.   Now that I have a better understanding of the perimenopause, the years leading up to a near-shutdown of ovarian function, I can see his point.

7.   So far, two patients show signs of ovarian function.

8.   The egg reserve maintains ovarian function.

9.   The pill replaces ovarian function and offers an alternative to the unpredictable hormone function of perimenopause.

10.   These and other symptoms are associated with the loss of ovarian function.