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Hormone Replacement Therapy
Women taking HRT have higher risk of false-negative mammogram results
June 16th, 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...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-16)
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