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Hormone Therapy Increases Incidence and Deaths from Ovarian Cancer


Researchers in the United Kingdom have found the combined risk of breast, ovarian or endometrial cancer appear to be 63 percent higher in users of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), typically menopausal women in the age range of 50 to 64.
The report, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, found that women who take HRT [...]

Risk of Heart Disease and Death from Hormone Therapy Increases with Age


A study suggests that the risks of coronary heart disease and death associated with hormone replacement therapy increase the longer women wait to begin therapy after the onset of menopause.
The study concluded that heart disease is not significantly increased in women who begin therapy within 10 years of the onset of menopause – on average [...]

National Decrease in Breast Cancer Tied to Fewer Women Using Hormone Replacement Therapy


A new study provides strong evidence that the dramatic decline in breast cancer cases in women over 50 since 2002 can be attributed to the decline in hormone replacement prescriptions for menopausal women.
Statistics analyzed by a large team of researchers and just published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the frequency of [...]