What 5,000 Women Have Taught Me About Breast Health, Cancer, and Estradiol By Dr. Carrozzella Part I – The Fear: “Won’t Estrogen Give Me Breast Cancer?” If you are a middle-aged woman, you have almost certainly heard some version of this sentence: “I’d love to feel better, but I’m not taking hormones. Estrogen causes breast…
For more than two decades, women were told that “estrogen causes breast cancer.” This belief became deeply entrenched after early interpretations of hormone therapy studies suggested an increase in breast cancer risk. But here’s the problem: the word “estrogen” was used imprecisely, blending very different hormones into one category. In reality, there is a profound…
Spoiler Alert: Medical Literature Shows Hormone Replacement Therapy May Help Reduce The Risk of Cancer There’s an elephant in the room any time hormone replacement therapy is discussed. That elephant is, usually, the results of a study which were published in the very early 2000s. Results from The Women’s Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials…