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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Hormone Therapy’s Protection Against Endometrial Cancer Persists in Women’s Health Initiative Follow-Up Study



 Blogger's Note: post WHI studies have been published in recent years which have 'clarified' some of the original study's findings, such as this:

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"...Dr. Marcia Hall, a consultant medical oncologist at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in greater London, provided independent comment on the results. “The combination of estrogen plus progestin does indeed protect against endometrial cancer,” she said, noting that the results are in line with those of observational studies, such as the U.K.’s Million Women Study (Lancet 2007;369:1703-10)....

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