Menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk

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Menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk

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In the past decade, results from large prospective cohort studies and the Women's Health Initiative randomized placebo-controlled hormone therapy trials have substantially changed thoughts about how estrogen alone and estrogen plus progestin influence the risk of breast cancer, according to a review published March 15 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute.

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Estrogen-only form of menopausal hormone therapy may protect against breast cancer

news-medical.net — “Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., an LA BioMed investigator whose research activities have focused on breast cancer therapy and prevention, and chronic diseases impacting women's health, is co-author of a study that indicates that women who use the estrogen-only form of menopausal hormone therapy appear less likely to develop breast cancer in the longer term, according to new research which was recently published The Lancet Oncology.View full resource at news-medical.net

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