Breast Cancer Risk Related To Menopausal Hormone Therapy

In the past decade, results from large prospective cohort studies and the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) 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 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute…

Film Turns Comic Eye on Menopause

"Hot Flash Havoc," a film of "menopausal proportions," is a documentary meant to examine menopausal symptoms, reveal the history and society's view on menopause and even question the results from an ongoing National Institutes of Health initiative, which, in 2002, discouraged women from taking estrogen plus progesterone to treat symptoms of menopause.

Estrogen After Menopause Lowers Breast Cancer Risk for Some Women

If one thing’s clear about the data on the health effects of hormone replacement therapy after menopause, it’s that they’re confusing. But researchers are continually learning more about which women can safely use estrogen or progestin, and when. In the latest study, published in the journal Lancet Oncology, scientists once again mined data from the [...]

Is Estrogen Safe After Menopause?

A new study suggests that estrogen-only HRT may lower the risk of breast cancer for some postmenopausal women. However, the findings apply to a certain group of those women – those who have had a hysterectomy, have no increased risk of breast cancer and no increased risk of strokes and blood clots.

Hormone pill may cut breast cancer risk for some

Women who take estrogen after menopause appear to have a lower risk of breast cancer even years after they quit taking the hormone, according to a new analysis of a landmark study.

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