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Hormones That Are Safe For Women Who Have Had Estrogen Positive Breast Cancer
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Breast Cancer News Editor's Note: Science and health news outlet EurekAlert! published yesterday an interesting summary of a Lancet study on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) agonists, drugs that decrease the level of estrogen and other sex hormones in women. LH-RH agonists for breast cancer treatment are used in Europe and Australia but rarely in the United States, which may explain why the study, published in a leading British medical journal got so little press in the States....
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