Re: Estrogen Linked to Benign Breast Lumps: Washington Post April 8, 2008

[Guest guest]

I'm amazed that this article didn't discuss the importance of

estrogen being taken with bio-identical progesterone (which, of

course, is different from the man-made progestin, which causes all

kinds of issues)....or should I not have been surprised, since many

media articles cloud issues rather than illuminate them?

Be careful what you read....since being quoted in media and having

articles written using my story, I've found that most media stories

are FILLED with inaccuracies!

Patty

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> The Associated Press

> Washington Post Tuesday, April 8, 2008; 11:01 PM

> WASHINGTON -- Add another risk to hormone therapy

> after menopause: Benign breast lumps. One type of hormone therapy _

estrogen

> plus progestin _ already is well-known to increase the risk of

breast cancer.

> But a major study of women able to use estrogen alone didn't find

that link.

> Tuesday, researchers reported a new

> wrinkle: Those estrogen-only users doubled their chances of getting

> non-cancerous breast lumps. That's a concern not only because of

the extra

> biopsies and worry those lumps cause, but because a particular type

_ called

> benign proliferative breast disease _ is suspected of being a first

step toward

> developing cancer 10 years or so later.

> About one in five women undergo a breast

> biopsy within a decade of starting annual mammograms, and most are

of those

> abnormalities turn out to be benign. Yet under a microscope, there

are

> different types, from simple fluid-filled cysts to what's called

proliferative

> breast disease because it's made of growing cells.

> The latest work, published in the Journal

> of the National Cancer Institute, re-examines data from the

landmark Women's

> Health Initiative that found a variety of health risks from long-

term hormone

> therapy.

> Only women who have undergone hysterectomies

> are able to use estrogen-only therapy, and the WHI originally

included more

> than 10,000 of those women, who were given either estrogen or a

dummy drug and

> tracked for about seven years.

> Now, a team led by Dr. Tom Rohan of the

> Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has reviewed breast

biopsies

> done on those women _ and identified 232 cases of benign

proliferative breast

> disease. Women given the estrogen-only therapy had twice the risk

of developing

> these abnormalities compared with women given a placebo.

> WHI participants are still being tracked,

> allowing scientists to eventually tell if the benign breast

problems were a

> signal of more trouble to come, Rohan concluded.

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