Hormone therapy use by postmenopausal women may increase incidence of more advanced breast cancer
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Follow-up of about 11 years of participants in the Women's Health Initiative finds that among postmenopausal women, use of oestrogen plus progestin is associated with an increased incidence of breast cancers that are more advanced, and with a higher risk of deaths attributable to breast cancer, according to a study in the October 20 issue of JAMA...