Subscribe to our newsletter. Study Anyone who knows anything about breast cancer risk knows that estrogen is bad.
Women have their ovaries removed to prevent feeding estrogen to possible tumors.
This month, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports on a study that found a lower incidence of breast cancer recurrence among women who used HRT than among women who avoided the estrogen replacement. Last month a literature review in the Journal of Clinical Oncology proposed the same idea. Estrogen Causes Cancer To Grow HRT is commonly prescribed for women who are menopausal or past menopause to replace the estrogen that the body no longer produces. The benefits of this therapy to women include lowering the risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, and other conditions that worsen when the body stops producing estrogen. Women who have had breast cancer or who are at high risk are generally not given estrogen because many breast cancers are estrogen dependendent.