Hormone use linked to cancer risks - including lung tumors AP

[mzmolly]

The first follow-up of a landmark study of hormone use after menopause shows heart problems linked with the pills seem to fade after women stop taking them, while surprising new cancer risks appear.

That heart trouble associated with hormones may not be permanent is good news for millions of women who quit taking them after the government study was halted six years ago because of heart risks and breast cancer.

But the new risks for other cancers, particularly lung tumors, in women who'd taken estrogen-progestin pills for about five years puzzled the researchers and outside experts.

Those risks "were completely unanticipated," said Dr. Gerardo Heiss of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, lead author of the follow-up analysis. More at link - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_on_he_me/hormone_risks">AP

[FourScore]

1. kick

[mzmolly]

2. Thanks

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[BonnieJW]

3. These are women who were on SYNTHETIC

hormones. Bio-identical hormones are the way to go. I've taken them for 5 years without any side effects.