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Once more, a research study appeared damning evidence against hormone therapy that millions of women continue to be used to relieve symptoms of menopause. Cards and were women who took estrogen and progesterone for five years or more is more likely to get breast cancer. they were also more likely to have other, more serious, cancer. and where they run a greater risk of dying from them.

These were the main results of a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings are based on 11 years of follow-up, with more than 12 000 participants in the study initiative health of women, which was discovered in 2002 that prolonged use of HRT increases incidence of cancer of the ovary, breast cancer and stroke, among other ill effects.

The study was interrupted when these conclusions in the light and all the participants ended by hormones. researchers continued to follow the participants.

The latest study contradicts earlier studies concluded that increase the risk associated with HRT applicable only on more manageable and less aggressive tumours some doctors regarded as anything other than minor problems. The researchers found a correlation between hormone replacement therapy and the increased risk of death for the first time.

Guess the game

All categories of breast cancer increased in women who used HRT and as a group, their cancer was more advanced. Two times many of them died WHI participants versus who took a placebo instead of HRT.

Rowan Chlebowski, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, author of the last analysis, have said that even if the risk of death is low--2.6 for 10 000 per year - it is real.

Sales HRT falls after the annual report of 2002, but doctors still prescribe it for millions of women, that lower doses of game made for a short period, not to harm their patients. However, there is no research in support of the validity of this approach.

To die?

Hormone therapy for the treatment of the symptoms of menopause seemed to be one of the wonders of the modern world, when it became available. For some women, these symptoms can be severe - even disabling.

However, no woman has ever died at menopause. Notice that doc Thu must break out of the big pharma and the pressure applied by patients who want to have a pill to cure some suffers - even if it means rolling the dice influence.

The percentage of women who die due to seek relief for symptoms of menopause can be very low, but for those who represent a small part of humanity, the consequences are indeed significant.

No drug should be to relieve pain or discomfort if the death could be the result - except for patients who are terminally or whose life which is really not lived without.

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