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HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND BREAST CANCER:
THE RISKS IN PERSPECTIVE
Janet M. a fifties-something woman entered my office and
said as she sat down "I've read that if I take hormones I'll
increase my breast cancer risk. I'm going crazy without sleep and
with these mood swings but I don't want to increase my breast
cancer risk by taking hormones."
Like many women Janet had heard that a recent study the
Women's Health Initiative (WHI) definitively showed that hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) increases breast cancer risk. Janet
like most people didn't realize that this study found ...
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