Archive for the ‘Women Issues’ Category

Researchers are once again pointing to strong evidence that the use of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, to treat the symptoms of menopause may cause breast cancer. They reported that risk of breast cancer increased upon beginning use of the therapy and fell when women stopped taking the pills. At the highest risk point, women who were using the therapy had twice the breast cancer risk of a matched group of women who were not. With this strong evidence in ... Read More