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Article: Long-Term ERT Associated With Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer Death Among Postmenopausal Women.(estrogen replacement therapy )
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- April 5, 2001
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2001 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a new study, women who used postmenopausal estrogens for 10 years or more were found to be at substantially increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer that persisted for many years after estrogen replacement therapy was stopped.
The association was reported in the March 21, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Carmen Rodriguez, MD, MPH, and colleagues with the American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, followed 211,581 postmenopausal women from 1982 to 1996 to examine the association between the use of postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and ovarian cancer mortality.
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