Science news articles about 'menopausal hormone therapy'

... 's) landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy clinical trials. Previous studies ... women who had previously taken post-menopausal hormone therapy in the Women's Health Initiative Memory ...

... combined estrogen plus progestin menopausal hormone therapy for at least five years double ... cancer for the majority of women assigned to estrogen-only therapy. Results of the latest multi-center study ...

... cancer risk. Women who have taken menopausal hormone therapy before have a 37 percent higher ... , while use of estrogen alone (estrogen replacement therapy) raises the risk by only 15 percent. However, ...

... no link between body weight and ovarian cancer was evident for women who had ever used menopausal hormone therapy. According to Dr. Leitzmann, these findings support the hypothesis that obesity may ...

... for tumors to grow," Haslam said. "Long-term exposure to progesterone, such as that which occurs in menopausal hormone therapy, may encourage growth of tumors." Haslam noted that as the link between ...