Breast cancer decline matches HRT decline
As the number two killer of women in the United States, cancer is a scary fact of life. Death rates of some cancers, however, are on the decrease - breast cancer being one of them.
Just recently, a new study offered evidence that the recent reduction in hormone replacement therapy has contributed to the recent reduction in breast cancer diagnoses. The 2002 warning about HRT has quite possibly helped reduce breast cancer diagnoses from 210,000 (before 2002) to below 190,000 (after). Encouragingly enough, those rates have remained steady through the last available data in 2005.
2002 was a frightening year for women using hormone-replacement therapy after a National Institute of Health warned that estrogen and progestin combinations may increase strokes, heart attacks and breast cancers. Since then, breast cancer rates have held steady for three years now.
Have you read anything like this? Do you know of anyone who was involved in the Prempro scare?
A friend recently asked me about hormone-replacement therapy and we talked briefly about bioidentical hormones (ala Oprah, I guess) – does anyone know anything much about the efficacy of those compared to synthetic hormones?
Just recently, a new study offered evidence that the recent reduction in hormone replacement therapy has contributed to the recent reduction in breast cancer diagnoses. The 2002 warning about HRT has quite possibly helped reduce breast cancer diagnoses from 210,000 (before 2002) to below 190,000 (after). Encouragingly enough, those rates have remained steady through the last available data in 2005.
2002 was a frightening year for women using hormone-replacement therapy after a National Institute of Health warned that estrogen and progestin combinations may increase strokes, heart attacks and breast cancers. Since then, breast cancer rates have held steady for three years now.
Have you read anything like this? Do you know of anyone who was involved in the Prempro scare?
A friend recently asked me about hormone-replacement therapy and we talked briefly about bioidentical hormones (ala Oprah, I guess) – does anyone know anything much about the efficacy of those compared to synthetic hormones?
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