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Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Estrogen-plus-progestin use increases mammographic density in postmenopausal women
December 1st, 2005
Estrogen-plus-progestin use increases mammographic density in postmenopausal women. According to investigators in the United States, "Increased mammographic density reduces the sensitivity of screening mammography, is associated with increased breast cancer risk, and may be hormone related." A. McTiernan and colleagues "assessed the effect of estrogen-plus-progestin therapy on mammographic density." "In a racially and ethnically diverse ancillary study of the Women's Health Initiative," the clinicians "examined data from 413 postmenopausal women who had been randomly assigned to receive daily combined conjugated equine estrogens (0.625 mg) plus...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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