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Old 28th November 2006, 03:53 PM   #101
Ducky
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Originally Posted by nraden View Post
Giving hormones to people diagnosed with cancer is unprecedented.

This is a flat out falsehood. There are several hormone treatments given to prostate and breast cancer patients. You can review the types of hormone treatments for cancer patients here.

Please know what you're talking about before making false claims.


In fact, you can go read this paper nicely summing up the literature on HRT for women with either a history of breast or endometrial cancer. I'll quote a little for you, if you like:

Quote:
The possible association of replacement therapy with re-
gard to hormonally dependent cancers has been discussed
for decades. There is general agreement that unopposed es-
trogen in a woman with a uterus does increase the risk of
endometrial cancer severalfold. The rationale for using com-
bined estrogen plus progesterone in such an individual is
that in some studies the incidence of endometrial carcinoma
is reduced to normal or even is protective against endometrial carcinoma.

Last edited by Ducky; 28th November 2006 at 04:21 PM.
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