There's more news now that might make women think twice about hormone replacement therapy.
Some tout the benefits of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms, while others emphasize the risks.
Two years ago, the same studies showed that hormone replacement therapy didn't prevent disease.
The proof, apparently, that taking hormone replacement therapy does significantly increase the risk of breast cancer.
But doctors and women had heard for years dramatic claims that hormone replacement therapy had great benefits.
The team studied over 2, 500 women involved in hormone replacement therapy - whose average age was 66.
The question now, Hsia says, is whether hormone replacement therapy provides a demonstrable improvement in quality of life.
On a routine visit to a new obstetrics-gynecologist, a woman recalls being recommended hormone replacement therapy to prevent osteoporosis.
Armstrong works primarily in cancer prevention, but she says even so, there are times when hormone replacement therapy makes sense.
She says hormone replacement therapy is just one of several factors that nudge up a woman's risk of breast cancer.
Still, it may be a useful treatment for women who are leery of hormone replacement therapy and its associated risks.
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"A higher proportion of the women taking hormone replacement therapy had cardiovascular events than women in the control groups, " they said.
He suggested hormone replacement therapy was unlikely to be responsible since few of those involved in the study had taken HRT.
Some women on hormone replacement therapy even have to pay twice for their treatment because they use two different sorts of drugs.
Women undergoing hormone replacement therapy may be vulnerable to developing large breasts.
Once upon a time, maybe three decades ago, people thought hormone replacement therapy was the fountain of youth for women going through menopause.
Northern Ireland drug company Galen Holdings plan to launch a ring for delivering hormone replacement therapy in Britain over the next few months.
Why is it that HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) is a multi billion dollar industry and both are legally prescribing ANABOLIC STEROIDS!
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This is largely due to a decreased use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which has been shown to increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.
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The researchers, from the University of Florida in Gainesville, carried out the study after observing that post-menopausal women under hormone replacement therapy were protected against strokes.
Estrogen hormone replacement therapy seemed to have all sorts of benefits based on observational studies, but they vanished under the more rigorous lens of controlled clinical trials.
Wyeth's hormone replacement therapy is less safe than many believed.
Women who are being treated for breast cancer are often prohibited from using traditional hormone replacement therapy because breast cancer can be sensitive to estrogen, the predominant female hormone.
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Many menopausal women who are afraid that hormone replacement therapy could increase their risk of breast cancer have turned to the herbal supplement black cohosh an alternative in recent years.
Then in 2002 a single study of 16, 000 women blew all those other results out of the water, finding that hormone replacement therapy increased the risk of heart attacks by 29%.
But Ropeik notes that there have been cases where scientists have sounded a clear, early, public warning when warranted -- such as for cancer risks associated with hormone replacement therapy.
Although a number of studies have looked at what happens to breast tissue when women start using hormone replacement therapy, the impact of continuing and discontinuing hormone use has not been well understood.
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Cato health policy analyst Michael Cannon noted that special interests successfully lobbied to require several new benefits, including drug-abuse treatment, early intervention for autism, hospice care, hormone replacement therapy, and non-in-vitro fertility services.
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But another explanation could be changes in lifestyle factors which increase the risk of hormone-dependent tumours, such as women having babies at an older age, obesity after menopause and use of hormone replacement therapy.
Fiona Kirkwood, cardiac nurse for the British Heart Foundation, said recent randomised studies had shown that combined hormone replacement therapy (oestrogen and progesterone) did not provide any protective benefit to women for coronary heart disease.
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