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Summertime blues
HRT can raise
risk of getting
breast cancer
AGE UK today urges Boris
Johnson to do a deal with
the BBC to save free TV
licences for over-75s.
In a letter it calls on him
to honour his 2017 vow to
keep the £154.50 lifeline.
The BBC, which must
fund the benefit from next
June, proposes to only keep
it free for the 1.5 million
OAPs on Pension Credit.
Charity boss Caroline
Abrahams told the PM
hard-up OAPs faced “giving
up their TV or reducing
spending on essentials”.
She added: “It’s become
crystal clear how serious
the impact of the BBC’s
decision is likely to be.”
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THERE is “absolutely no
point” in fresh talks to
avert a series of British
Airways strikes unless a
pay offer is improved,
union bosses warned.
Members of the British
Airline Pilots Association
will walk out on September
9, 10 and 27, causing huge
disruption to flights.
On Wednesday it was
thought the two sides
could get together to
resolve the dispute.
But Balpa general secre-
tary Brian Strutton said:
“This dispute will only be
settled when BA improve
their offer enough to
satisfy their pilots.”
■ Flyers are less satisfied
with air travel than three
years ago, a Civil Aviation
Authority survey found.
Strike talks
hopes stall
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treatment, aged 50, were 33% more likely
to develop breast cancer within 20 years
than women who had never used HRT.
Use of oestrogen and intermittent
progestogen for five years was associated
with a 22% higher risk, while oestrogen-
only HRT resulted in an 8% increase.
Prof Valerie Beral of
Oxford University, said:
“Previous estimates of risks
associated with use of meno-
pausal hormone therapy are
approximately doubled by
the inclusion of the persis-
tent risk after use of the
hormones ceases.”
■ Half of women wrongly believe they’re
not at risk of cervical cancer if in a long-
term relationship, a survey revealed.
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ANOTHER red alert on HRT and again,
it’s about increased breast cancer risk.
What makes this latest study, in the
Lancet, different from all the others?
Well, first it’s very big – an international
study on more than 100,000 women who
developed breast cancer.
It found 51% had taken HRT, putting
the risks at about twice what we thought.
The other big finding is the risk after
stopping HRT persists for up to 10 years.
For the first time it differentiates
between different forms of HRT, with
oestrogen vaginal cream no risk at all.
Oestrogen-only HRT is the lowest. HRT
containing oestrogen AND progestogen
is higher, with continuous progestogen
having a greater risk than intermittent.
HRT causes 1,400 cancers a year in
the UK, less than 1% of cases, but the
longer you take HRT, the higher your risk.
What if you’re thinking of HRT? Ask
your GP and consider oestrogen vaginal
cream. If you’ve had a hysterectomy, you
can take oestrogen-only HRT, but think
hard about HRT containing progestogen.
BY HANNA GEISSLER
DR MIRIAM STOPPARD
Danger remains for 10 years after use
HORMONE replacement therapy is
linked to an increased risk of breast
cancer, scientists have warned.
A major review of worldwide evidence
found almost all forms of the treatment
were linked to the raised risk.
And it revealed for the first
time the risk stays higher for
more than 10 years after use.
The study said women
who use HRT to relieve
symptoms of the menopause
could increase their risk of
breast cancer by twice as
much as previously thought.
Around one million women use HRT
in the UK. More than half use oestrogen
and daily progestogen.
The link was strongest for this combi-
nation. Users who started five years of
WORRY A mammogram
THIS little girl was so bored over the summer break
she coloured in her own face to look like her favourite
Disney character – with a permanent marker.
Skyla-Rae Muttram, aged five, told mum Jade
Perry that she was trying to look like Vampirina.
Jade, of Plymouth, Devon, said: “I tried to tell her
off but how can you stay mad at that face. It took a
good couple of days to come off.
“I burst out laughing, she looked like Violet from
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
BIG FAN Disney’s Vampirina
HAPPY Skyla-Rae normally
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