Get the expert perspective on the link between hormone therapy and breast cancer:
As you may have seen in the news, a study was recently released that renewed the debate on the relationship between hormone therapy and
Results showed that the relative risks were greater for women who used estrogen plus progestin than for Alarmist headlines get our attention, but there are good reasons not to panic. First, the results show association, not causation . Second, as the North American Menopause Society points out, the report is based on old prescribing practices for HT, including oral estrogens and regimens that are now rarely used because we know their adverse effects.So, the report doesn't tell us anything about the risks associated with current prescribing practices.
An important finding in the study was that obesity is itself a sufficient risk factor for developing breast cancer so that HT did not appear to add risk. That is, being obese raises the risk of breast cancer as much or more than HT, depending on other factors—like age and specifics of HT.
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