Hormone Replacement Therapy

Estrogen for Survivors of Uterine Cancer? Study Addresses Debate

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 12th, 1997

The first large, national study of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) for women who have had cancer of the uterus will start enrolling patients this summer, researchers announced April 29, 1997, at the annual meeting of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The study is designed to resolve the current controversy over the safety of estrogen replacement for survivors of uterine, or endometrial, cancer.

The ERT Study is being sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and organized by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), a program of ACOG. GOG is one of 11 cooperative trial groups -- networks of...

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