Breast cancer metastasis increases after estrogen and progestin hormone therapies, study finds

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 12:52 in Health & Medicine

New evidence has been found that estrogen and progestin in hormone therapies increase the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women. Now, a new study has found that progestins can also increase the chance of the cancer metastasizing, or spreading to the lymph nodes.

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