Hormone Replacement Therapy – Our Expert’s view
March 23, 2012 @ 12:14 PM — by Dr. Dmowski
A report published recently in Lancet Oncology is a welcome new information for women who are being denied hormone replacement therapy based on poorly designed and/or misinterpreted prior studies. These studies seemed to suggest a link between estrogen replacement and breast cancer, a link that was questionable but nevertheless became greatly sensationalized by the media. The article in Lancet clearly demonstrates no such link. Other recent data suggests that it is not estrogen, but a synthetic progestogen given together with the estrogen that may slightly increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
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