Ada Cheung

The Informed Consent Model of Care for Accessing Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Is Associated With High Patient Satisfaction.

Cassandra Spanos, Julian A Grace, Shalem Y Leemaqz, Adam Brownhill, Pauline Cundill, Peter Locke, Peggy Wong, Jeffrey D Zajac, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Journal of Sexual Medicine

BACKGROUND: There are 2 common approaches to assess an individual before commencing of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT); a ..

Efficacy of micronised progesterone for sleep: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trial data.

Brendan J Nolan, Bonnie Liang, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

CONTEXT: Pre-clinical data has shown progesterone metabolites improve sleep parameters through positive allosteric modulation of t..

Late-onset hypogonadism: metabolic impact

M Grossmann, M Ng Tang Fui, AS Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Andrology

BACKGROUND: Obesity and dysglycemia (comprising insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes), that is diabesity..

A systematic review of antiandrogens and feminization in transgender women

Lachlan M Angus, Brendan J Nolan, Jeffrey D Zajac, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Endocrinology

Antiandrogens are frequently used with estradiol in transgender women seeking feminization. Antiandrogens act by various mechanism..

Estradiol Therapy in the Perioperative Period: Implications for Transgender People Undergoing Feminizing Hormone Therapy

Brendan J Nolan, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Venous thromboembolism is a documented risk of some estradiol formulations, but evidence evaluating the perioperative risk of cont..

Approach to interpreting common laboratory pathology tests in transgender individuals.

Ada S Cheung, Hui Yin Lim, Teddy Cook, Sav Zwickl, Ariel Ginger, Cherie Chiang, Jeffrey D Zajac

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

CONTEXT: As the number of transgender (trans) people (including those who are binary and/or non-binary identified) seeking gender-..

Differing Effects of Zoledronic Acid on Bone Microarchitecture and Bone Mineral Density in Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Ada S Cheung, Rudolf Hoermann, Ali Ghasem-Zadeh, Alistair J Tinson, Vivian Ly, Stefan Milevski, Daryl Lim Joon, Jeffrey D Zajac, Ego Seeman, Mathis Grossmann

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) given to men with prostate cancer causes rapid and severe sex steroid deficiency leading to inc..

Global Coagulation Assays in Transgender Women on Oral and Transdermal Estradiol Therapy

Hui Yin Lim, Shalem Y Leemaqz, Niloufar Torkamani, Mathis Grossmann, Jeffrey D Zajac, Harshal Nandurkar, Prahlad Ho, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

CONTEXT: The thrombotic effects of estradiol therapy in transgender women are unclear. Global coagulation assays (GCA) may be bett..

Testosterone therapy considerations in oestrogen, progesterone and androgen receptor-positive breast cancer in a transgender man

Melanie Light, Thomas McFarlane, Andrew Ives, Bhaumik Shah, Elgene Lim, Mathis Grossmann, Jeffrey D Zajac, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Endocrinology

A 44-year-old premenopausal individual assigned female at birth but with a male gender identity, presented requesting masculinizin..

Sustained remission of Lynch syndrome-associated metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma following checkpoint inhibitor therapy-associated multiorgan autoimmunity

Aditi Nevgi, Oliver Klein, Ada S Cheung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Endocrinology

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare and aggressive tumour with limited treatment options for metastatic disease1 . Immunother..