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Breast Cancer Rates Dropped Even Before Hormone Results

May 6, 2007 – 4:39 pm

New research by American Cancer Society scientists supports a recent report that links a drop in breast cancer rates between 2002 and 2003 to a simultaneous decline in the use of hormone therapy. But the new work also shows that breast cancer rates were going down even before 2002 — at the same time that […]

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Decrease in breast cancer rates likely reflect HRT reduction and saturation of mammography

May 4, 2007 – 4:40 am

A new study, published in the Online Open Access journal Breast Cancer Research, reveals two distinct patterns in the recent breast cancer rates in U.S. women: a downturn in the incidence rates in almost all age groups above 45 years beginning in 1998/1999, consistent with a levelling off of mammography utilization, and a sharp fall […]

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Hormone replacement therapy raises cancer risk in women

April 19, 2007 – 10:49 am

BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) — Studies done both in the U.S. and UK showed women who take hormones after menopause — hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — will have a much higher risk of breast cancer and a slightly higher risk of ovarian cancer, according to media reports Thursday.
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