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Article: HRT: the risks: what the recent Million Women Study means for patients.(analysis)
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- Nursing Standard
- Article date:
- August 27, 2003
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THE BENEFITS of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have tended to obscure the potential dangers that come with this treatment. This may well change as a result of the latest findings by Cancer Research UK's epidemiology unit in Oxford, which shows that the combined HRT treatment doubles the possibility of breast cancer (Million Women Study Collaborators 2003) The Million Women Study, published in a recent issue of the Lancet, was the largest research ever into the link between HRT and breast cancer. More than a million women in the UK aged 50 to 64 who went for mammograms between 1996 and 2001 were involved.
HRT, which was first developed in the mid-1970s, was ...