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...landmark federal study established that hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, researchers are still trying to tease out exactly how the hormones interfere with women's health. The assumption has always been that stopping hormone therapy would lead to a corresponding drop in breast-cancer risk, but now newly published data from the original trial - the multiyear Women's Health Initiative involving tens of thousands of women - suggest that the benefit occurs much more immediately than previously thought...
...Roman Chelbowski, lead author of the current study and a medical oncologist at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, disagrees. He says the rapid decline in cancer rates was due not only to an overall drop in breast-cancer risk, but also to the withdrawal of excess estrogen, which may actually have served as a treatment for tiny, preclinical breast cancers. "When you change from a high- to a low-estrogen environment, it's like giving breast cancer treatment," he says. "These are preclinical cancers that are below the level of detection, and that accounts...
...That is a reasonable and biologically plausible explanation for why we might be seeing a more precipitous drop in breast cancer than we might expect from the normal lead time for reduction of malignancies," says Dr. Jonathan Berek, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study...
Facing a steep drop in the University’s endowment, the Harvard Divinity School is planning to reduce the number of visiting professorships and adjunct positions offered next year, according to an announcement by HDS Dean William A. Graham...
Harvard’s endowment lost an estimated 22 percent in the 4-month period ending Oct. 31, 2008, and University officials are anticipating a 30 percent drop by the end of this fiscal year...