Study gives tick to hormone therapy
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 08:20.
As fewer Australian women use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to help them get through the menopause, fewer of them are becoming breast cancer cases.
An Australian National University (ANU) study showed a 7-per-cent reduction in the incidence of breast cancer among women over 50 since 2002 when a US study linked HRT to an increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease and strokes.
New research, some of it conducted in Australia, has reaffirmed the benefits to older women of HRT.
Adelaide University researcher Alastair MacLennan said that the increased risk was slim and that, for a woman over 60, this risk should be balanced against the positives HRT brings.
"She needs to get accurate information about the risks because they've often been inflated and exaggerated by people not working in this area or indeed by people with vested interests," he said.
Older women, troubled by aches and pains, and by sleeping difficulties, reported real improvements from HRT, MacLennan said.
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