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Article: Estrogen, an Aid Against Heart Disease, Raises Breast Cancer Risk in Study
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 28, 1990
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Women who take daily doses of estrogen after menopause have
about a 36 percent greater risk of developing breast cancer than
women not taking the hormone, but the excess risk disappears within
a year or two if a woman stops the drug, according to a study
published today.
"Estrogen replacement therapy" is widely prescribed for women
after menopause because studies have established that daily doses of
the female hormone can reduce the incidence of heart disease and
osteoporosis, a gradual weakening of the bones that can lead to
disabling hip and spinal fractures.
But experts have long worried that giving older women estrogen
might increase the frequency of breast cancer, which kills about ...
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