Women's Health
The future of HRT in postmenopausal women is in the individualization of therapy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 29th, 2003
"Sex-steroid-related tumors in women are represented by breast cancer and endometrial cancer, but a possible relationship may exist between sex steroids and both ovarian and colon cancer," scientists in Italy report.
"Unopposed estrogen therapy is known to increase the risk of endometrial cancer and is appropriate only for hysterectomized women.
"In women with an intact uterus, an appropriate combination of estrogen and progestin does not appear to increase -- and may even decrease -- the risk of endometrial cancer," wrote M. Gambacciani and...
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