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Expert_badge Dorian Martin

New Study Adds to Concerns About Linkage Between Hormone Therapy, Breast Cancer

A new federal study has found that women who take estrogen and progestin after menopause increase their chances of getting breast cancer and also face a small increased risk of dying from this disease.  The Women’s Health Initiative study, which involved 16,000 women who were followed for 11 years, found “that women who took the... Read moreChevron
posted 10/25/2010, comments (0)|
Expert_badge Sandy Greenquist

Sandy Greenquist

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Certified Menopause Clinician

Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy

The facts and the fiction...there are a lot of both. I, for one, am ready for the media to stop replaying various takes on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and alarming women with often erroneous, frequently skewed, stories based on that flawed study. The WHI released in 2002 investigated mostly older women (average age 64) who started... Read moreChevron
posted 12/28/2008, comments (0)|
Expert_badge Sandy Greenquist

Sandy Greenquist

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Certified Menopause Clinician

What Are Bioidentical Hormones and Why Should You Care?

Since the publication of the book The Sexy Years in 2004, which introduced bioidentical hormones to the public as an alternative form of hormone therapy to manage the symptoms of perimenopause and beyond, questions about effectiveness and safety have multiplied. In addition, the controversy between those who advocate the bioidenticals versus... Read moreChevron
posted 10/14/2008, comments (0)|

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