Hormone treatment after menopause already known to increase the risk of breast cancer, also makes it more likely that the cancer will be advanced and deadly, a study finds, according to the New York Times Article, Breast Cancer Seen as Riskier with Hormone.
Women who took the hormones were more likely to die from breast cancer than women who never took them.
The hormones delayed tumor detection in mammograms, by increasing breast density.
The treatment studied was the most commonly prescribed hormone replacement pill, Prempro, which contains estrogens from horse urine and a synthetic relative of the hormone progesterone.
The article goes to quote doctors, like Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who said women should not take the hormones at all unless they really need them, for moderate to severe symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats that disrupt sleep and severely affect their quality of life.
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