Posts Tagged ‘Hormone’

Risks of Estrogen Hormone Therapy Seen to Fade After Treatment Ends

Risks of Estrogen Hormone Therapy Seen to Fade After Treatment Ends
TUESDAY, April 5 (HealthDay News) — In the latest analysis from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, researchers report that risks to postmenopausal women who were taking estrogen-only hormone therapy faded rapidly after they ended the treatment.

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You Docs: There’s still a good chance that hormone therapy can help you

You Docs: There’s still a good chance that hormone therapy can help you
What are the newer, safer forms? Bioidentical estrogen (estradiol) and micronized progesterone, which doesn’t block estrogen’s artery-pampering effects.

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Ending hormone therapy doesn’t cut breast-cancer risk, study says

Ending hormone therapy doesn’t cut breast-cancer risk, study says
Estrogen-plus-progestin hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Now, a longer-term study of the problem shows the higher risk of breast cancer continues among women who took hormones but stopped, that the cancer in these women may be more advanced and that the likelihood of dying of breast cancer is increased.

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Hormone therapy linked to more aggressive, deadlier breast cancers

Hormone therapy linked to more aggressive, deadlier breast cancers
Latest results from the Women’s Health Initiative, which included thousands of San Antonio women, finds the news about hormone treatment even bleaker than before.

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Hormone shot to fight breast cancer

Hormone shot to fight breast cancer
A Rs-75 injection increases the chances of survival for patients of breast cancer, a study conducted by the Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, has found. The cancer research institute carried out the study over a period of 12 years, involving 1,000 patients.

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