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...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net