globeandmail.com: Breast cancer risk, HRT link confirmed - Comments

globeandmail.com: Breast cancer risk, HRT link confirmed - Comments

(S Pniauskas, from Canada) wrote: Most of these unresolved issues stem from the well know publication of the WHI study (Women's Health Initiative). It is important to view this related research as it applies to oneself and in conjunction with a knowledgeable health care provider. The WHI publication authors acknowledged the media events were damaging and did not adequately relay pertinent or clear information to neither the consumer/public nor health care providers - so a lesson not well learned.
Further, there is a significant population of women for whom the WHI did not address which includes pre-menopausal women and those surgically and/or treatment-related induced menopause. For these women, and in particular, for those with surgically induced menopause, a one-size fits all - does not. There are significant differences between natural menopause and surgically/treatment-related menopause.

This Future Medicine editorial may be of interest:
http://tinyurl.com/cmgxek

HRT/ERT/MRT is an area of concern not only to breast cancer women (those at risk of whom there are many) but also those genetically predisposed to breast, ovarian, uterine (endometrial) and colo-rectal women.

A blanket statement on definitve implications is impossible at the moment. While some criticize the many post analyses in sub-groups of the WHI, it is necessary due to the often critical and criticized absences of important information that was not included in the WHI.