Journal Top Ten - Drugs & Supplements - August 2003

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1 RELATED DRUG: Prempro

ARTICLE: Breast Cancer and Hormone Replacement Therapy in the Million Women Study

SUMMARY: A study designed to investigate the effects of specific types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on incident and fatal breast cancer. Researchers tracked the progress of 1,084,110 women in the UK aged 50 to 64 years between 1996 and 2001. Half of the women had used either estrogen-only or estrogen plus progestin forms of HRT. Of the women that used HRT, 9364 cases of invasive breast cancer and 637 deaths from breast cancer were recorded after an average of …