Daily Mail - 30.08.2019

Major Oxford study says one in 20 cases

may be caused by menopause drugs

NEW ALERT

OVER HRT

LINKS TO

BREAST

CANCER

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By Eleanor Hayward

Health Reporter

HRT was back in the

spotlight last night after

an Oxford study found it

raised the risk of breast

cancer by a third.

Researchers said women aged

50 to 69 were 32 per cent more

likely to get the disease if they

had taken the most common

form of the hormone replace-

ment therapy for at least five

years. The danger was twice as

high for patients on the treat-

ment for a decade.

The team said however that the

overall risk was still small – and doc-

tors said the benefits often out-

weighed the risks.

Based on 58 global studies, the

research suggested that HRT causes

around one in 20 cases of breast can-

cer – nearly 3,000 a year in Britain.

The extra risk lasted for ten or

more years after women stopped

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