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Article: Fewer, but more advanced, colon cancers occur in postmenopausal women on HRT.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- April 6, 2004
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2004 APR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Get a routine colonoscopy whether or not you are taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause.
That's the primary message women should take away from the latest study from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) on the relationship of estrogen and progestin replacement and colon cancer, said study co-author Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, co-director of the University at Buffalo's WHI Vanguard Center and an assistant professor of social and preventive medicine and gynecology and obstetrics
Results of the study, which appeared in the March 4, 2004, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that ...