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20th October 2010, 05:28 AM
Menopausal women taking combined hormone therapy have an elevated risk of being diagnosed with a more advanced stage of breast cancer and dying from it, according to a new US study.
Researchers conducted a new analysis of a landmark, federally funded clinical trial known as the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which was halted in 2002 after data suggested women who took a combination of estrogen and progestin hormones faced a higher risk of breast cancer.
The study, published in this week's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that women who previously used hormone therapy and discontinued it after the WHI was terminated still faced a slightly higher breast cancer mortality rate than women not taking hormones.
Advertisement: Story continues below For their analysis, Rowan Chlebowski of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and colleagues observed 16,608 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 years with no prior hysterectomy from 40 US clinical centers.
Their follow-up of about 11 years of WHI participants found that 385 women receiving hormones for an average of 5.6 years, or 0.42 percent, developed invasive breast cancer, compared with 293 women who received a placebo, or 0.34 percent.
link..... (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/hormone-therapy-linked-to-increased-cancer-risk-20101020-16udl.html)
haha.. cant count
Researchers conducted a new analysis of a landmark, federally funded clinical trial known as the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which was halted in 2002 after data suggested women who took a combination of estrogen and progestin hormones faced a higher risk of breast cancer.
The study, published in this week's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that women who previously used hormone therapy and discontinued it after the WHI was terminated still faced a slightly higher breast cancer mortality rate than women not taking hormones.
Advertisement: Story continues below For their analysis, Rowan Chlebowski of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and colleagues observed 16,608 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 years with no prior hysterectomy from 40 US clinical centers.
Their follow-up of about 11 years of WHI participants found that 385 women receiving hormones for an average of 5.6 years, or 0.42 percent, developed invasive breast cancer, compared with 293 women who received a placebo, or 0.34 percent.
link..... (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/hormone-therapy-linked-to-increased-cancer-risk-20101020-16udl.html)
haha.. cant count