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ERT and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in Women – (04-23-01)

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ERT and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in Women

Not only are we consistently beating down to perceived benefits to HRT, but the list of adverse effects continues to grow. First of all, menopause IS NOT A DISEASE!! You will not find it in any of the pathology books. Second, if you want to lower your risk of heart disease and osteoporosois there are many other ways to do this without increasing your risk for cancer.

Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Ovarian Cancer Mortality in a Large Prospective Study of US Women

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Osteoporosis and Fractures in Postmenopausal Women Using Estrogen – (12-05-02)

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Osteoporosis, Fractures in Postmenopausal Women Using Estrogen

The house of cards is certainly coming down. Here we see a ten year study on ERT use and risk of fractures. Basically, the results do show ERT users as “somewhat” better protected. “Somewhat??” Increased risk of breast and endometrial cancer and heart disease and all we get is “somewhat” better protected? And, for those of you into research statistics, the p value was only .05 (the p value is an indicator of how likely these results were due to pure chance and not a protective effect). A p value of .05 is not really anything to brag about.

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