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...Most of the 16,600 women participating in the WHI at centers across the country stopped taking their supplemental hormone therapy after 2002, when the study found that the treatment increased a woman's risk of breast cancer, and did not protect women from heart disease, as doctors had previously thought. But the WHI continued to follow these subjects for heart disease, various cancers, stroke, fractures and other causes of death. They found, to their surprise, that the women who had taken HT for three to eight years had a 12% greater risk of overall death than women...
...Most of that increased risk was due to the greater danger of breast and other cancers among these women. "We had all hoped to see the breast cancer risk diminish rapidly [after hormone therapy was stopped]," says Dr. Gerardo Heiss, the lead author of the JAMA study and an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. "But that was not the case with women...
...While the fact that HT's risks may last longer than any woman would like, doctors stress that this risk is still very small. The overall risk of cancer, for instance, among women taking estrogen and progestin, comes to three extra cases per 1000 women per year. For breast cancer, the study found one extra case per 1000 women per year. "It's helpful to translate the findings into absolute cases," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "So for women who are having distressing menopausal symptoms, who are not sleeping...
...meantime, what does this study say about the safety of hormone therapy? The results are in line with previous findings, which exposed the breast cancer risk associated with the hormones and the lack of heart benefit from the therapy. What this study does is define how long those risks can last. "The results should not be cause for alarm or panic among women," says Manson. "The findings do underscore the point that HT should not be used for chronic disease prevention, but remains a viable option for short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms. When used for the short-term treatment...
...chicken dishes, for example, HUDS now uses thigh meat rather than breast meat...