Hormone Replacement Therapy

Disease prevention, control of menopausal symptoms are top reasons for hormone use in women

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 7th, 2006

Disease prevention and control of menopausal symptoms top the list of reasons for hormone use in women.

According to research conducted at Dartmouth College, "The objective of this paper is to report the prevalence and correlates of both prescription and nonprescription hormone use." The study was a "cross-sectional baseline study from a prospective cohort of 30,448 women receiving mammography in New Hampshire." The main outcomes measures were the "odds of prescription hormone and non-prescription hormone use."

P.A. Carney and colleagues described their study: "29,851 women were included; 62% reported some use of prescription hormone therapy, with...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-03-07)

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