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Article: What to Take for Hot Flashes After Breast Cancer; Hormone therapy can cause cancer's return, but other drugs seem safe; the challenge of contraception.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- March 25, 2008
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Byline: Deborah Kotz
The 2.5 million American women who've been diagnosed with breast cancer often face this difficult conundrum: The cancer treatments they take tend to give them hot flashes, night sweats, and other menopausal symptoms--or worsen those symptoms--yet they're advised not to take the most effective treatment against them, hormone replacement therapy, because it may increase the chance of the cancer recurring. A study out today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute confirms this: About 22 percent of breast cancer survivors who received HRT to combat these symptoms wound up with a recurrence five years later, compared with 8 percent who ...