Hormone Replacement Therapy

Women taking HRT have higher risk of false-negative mammogram results

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 14th, 2005

University of Melbourne researchers are urging women on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to be extra vigilant about having regular mammograms every 2 years.

The warning from University of Melbourne, BreastScreen Victoria, and Cancer Council of Victoria researchers comes after a study revealed that women on HRT have an increased risk of having a false-negative mammogram result - that is, the test showing no cancer when cancer could be present.

Published in the May 2005 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, the 5-year study of 1,557 women with breast cancer looked at the odds of having a false-negative result on mammogram in women who...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-06-14)

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