In the News – Hormone Replacement Therapy Increases Breast Cancer Death Risk
Snippet from the article:
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that postmenopausal women who take combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are at an increased risk of dying from breast cancer.
“Women on combined hormone therapy with estrogen plus progestin were twice as likely to die from breast cancer compared to women receiving placebo,” says medical oncologist and study author Dr. Rowan Chlebowski.
The researchers looked at more than 16,000 postmenopausal women who were part of a large government study called the Women’s Health Initiative.
Read the full text at CNN – HRT increases breast cancer death risk, study confirms
This isn’t obviously about hair loss, but important information for the many women that read this site (or if your spouse, mother, sister, whomever is undergoing hormone replacement therapy).
Why are we surprised at the latest research regarding HRT and breast cancer mortality? We seem to keep missing the basic understanding that “hormone replacement” with equine estrogens and progestin is not replacement at all. Why is it any wonder that we’re causing a host of problems with these drugs? (a rant)