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Breast Cancer
Cancer risk slightly higher for women in discontinued hormone treatment trial
March 20th, 2008
A follow up study of participants in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher has found that women who were taking the combined hormone therapy of estrogen plus progestin may have an increased risk of cancer since the intervention was stopped, compared to participants in the trial's placebo group. However, the increased risks of heart disease, stroke and blood clots – which had been seen in women taking the therapy as part of the WHI trial – have diminished in the three years since researchers stopped it, according to a study published in the March 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-20)
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