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Article: Hormone replacement therapy. (Medical Mailbox).(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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Dear Dr. SerVaas:
I'm a 49-year-old female in menopause and have taken 0.625 mg daily of Premarin for just one year. I had so many severe symptoms a year ago, and the HRT has helped me tremendously. However, my mother had a radical mastectomy two years ago at age 75. She was told her breast cancer was estrogen induced. I have recently moved to a new area, and my new gynecologist wants to take me off Premarin and put me on tamoxifen for five years to prevent breast cancer and put me on Bellergal S for my hot flashes and night sweats. I've done some research, and these two drugs have some pretty bad side effects of their own, and neither will keep my "female parts" ...