HRT AND BREAST CANCER: The Confusion and the Debate Continue.

Article Comments HRT And Breast Cancer: The Confusion And Debate Continue November 16th, 2010 by DrPeggyPolaneczky in Better Health Network, Health Tips, News, Opinion, Research A new analysis of long-term data from the Women’s Health Initiative confirms what we already knew the first time around: Use of combination hormone replacement (HRT*) is associated with a small, but real, risk of breast cancer. This new 11-year followup data carries that knowledge out to its not unexpected conclusion — namely, that some (although not most) breast cancers can be fatal, and therefore the the use of HRT can increase breast cancer mortality. While it may seem a bit of a “duh,” this study was, in fact, necessary to quell the WHI critics who continued to argue that the breast cancers caused by HRT were somehow less aggressive than those occurring off HRT