HRT and increased breast cancer risk

HRT And Breast Cancer

I’ve lost count of all the e-Alerts I’ve sent telling you about the various hormone replacement therapy (HRT) studies that have been shut down because of concerns for the safety of subjects participating in the studies.

The latest HRT study to be abruptly concluded involved 345 women. Half of them were taking HRT, while the other half took a non-hormonal treatment for menopause symptoms. Two years into the study, researchers at the University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden, found that more than 25 women in the HRT group were diagnosed with a new case or a recurrence of breast cancer. During that same period, seven women in the non-HRT group were diagnosed with breast cancer.

The study was stopped three years short of its planned end date.

Now imagine if instead of HRT they were studying, let’s say, the herb black cohosh (a natural alternative to HRT), and had found, again and again, that it increased the risk of a specific type of cancer. You can be sure the medical establishment drums would be pounding loud and long with demands to ban the herb worldwide. Would any treatment that wasn’t a pharmaceutical be tolerated like this? It’s inconceivable.

It makes you wonder why we’re still hearing about these studies being closed down. If others are still ongoing, isn’t time to consider shutting them down too? How many more cases of breast cancer will it take before the mainstream is finally convinced that synthetic HRT is simply an unsafe risk?

To Your Good Health,

Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute

Source:
“Hormone Therapy Study Halted Over Cancer Concerns” Associated Press, 2/3/04, cnn.com