Breast Cancer Linked To HRT, What To Do For Menopause Symptoms?
Breast cancer is occurring in an alarming numbers of American women and nobody, even the top doctors on the subject i.e. Dr. Susan Love, (who I recently heard at a conference), have definitive answers regarding the causes.
Yet, just a few days ago new evidence linking breast cancer with HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) was released. The study, the largest ever done was called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). It was first released in 2002 and now, more evidence from researchers following these women have found that HRT significantly increases a woman's risk of being diagnosed with invasive type of breast cancer and cause death.
The new evidence suggests:
high dose HRT increased a woman's risk more than low-dose HRT, and
combination HRT, both estrogen and progesterone carries an increase risk over estrogen only HRT.
After the initial WHI report …
