Hormone use linked to cancer risks - Yahoo! News (AP)
Yet another news release pointing to the harmful effects of hormone replacement therapy.
Turns out it's not "just" about breast cancer, but also lung and other cancers...
Just do your best to avoid the nasty stuff (Prempro, Premphase, etc.). There are other, better solutions to menopausal miseries most of the time. (Heck, even using a fan can be a huge help for hot flashes - what a concept!)
Signed,
Breast Cancer/Prempro & Premphase Survivor
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Hormones can raise breast cancer risk
Hormones can raise breast cancer risk - Yahoo! News (AP)
Yet more verification of the nastiness - no, the danger - of HRT.
From this article...
"After rising steadily through the 1990s, the breast cancer rate dipped from 2001 to 2002, from 138 cases to 135 cases per 100,000 women. After the federal Women's Health Initiative study reported in July 2002 on the health risks of hormones, use of the pills plunged.
So did the breast cancer rate the following year — to 126 cases per 100,000 women. It was the steepest fall since the government started keeping records in the 1970s.
The drop was seen in all of the cancer statistics registries reviewed in the study, and no other cancer rate changed as dramatically — strong signs that hormones were playing a role, specialists said."
I resisted my doctors' entreaties to take HRT for years (they started in at me when I was only 45!), and I only give in because doctors urged it as a prevention against osteoporosis - which I got anyway!
Doctors were really suckered in by the drug companies on this, I believe, BTW. Related, I also believe doctors didn't handle this well.
Anyway, whether or not HRT was entirely the cause of my tumor I can't answer, but I do know that the tumor was "very strongly receptive" (quoting my pathology report) to hormones. OIOW, whatever the cause, it was indeed a fact that the HRT was feeding my tumor royally and generously. Every pill I took, every patch I put on, was feeding my tumor. : ( I can't believe I went to so much trouble and expense to feed and grow my cancer.
No wonder some women like me have sued these people. You can tell it makes me angry. I don't dwell, though, what's the point? I do warn others about HRT, though, when the subject comes up.
Yet more verification of the nastiness - no, the danger - of HRT.
From this article...
"After rising steadily through the 1990s, the breast cancer rate dipped from 2001 to 2002, from 138 cases to 135 cases per 100,000 women. After the federal Women's Health Initiative study reported in July 2002 on the health risks of hormones, use of the pills plunged.
So did the breast cancer rate the following year — to 126 cases per 100,000 women. It was the steepest fall since the government started keeping records in the 1970s.
The drop was seen in all of the cancer statistics registries reviewed in the study, and no other cancer rate changed as dramatically — strong signs that hormones were playing a role, specialists said."
I resisted my doctors' entreaties to take HRT for years (they started in at me when I was only 45!), and I only give in because doctors urged it as a prevention against osteoporosis - which I got anyway!
Doctors were really suckered in by the drug companies on this, I believe, BTW. Related, I also believe doctors didn't handle this well.
Anyway, whether or not HRT was entirely the cause of my tumor I can't answer, but I do know that the tumor was "very strongly receptive" (quoting my pathology report) to hormones. OIOW, whatever the cause, it was indeed a fact that the HRT was feeding my tumor royally and generously. Every pill I took, every patch I put on, was feeding my tumor. : ( I can't believe I went to so much trouble and expense to feed and grow my cancer.
No wonder some women like me have sued these people. You can tell it makes me angry. I don't dwell, though, what's the point? I do warn others about HRT, though, when the subject comes up.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Cancer society recommends breast MRIs
Cancer society recommends breast MRIs - Yahoo! News (AP)
Interesting...
Something for me (and many of you reading this) to ask our doctors about the next time we have our annual mammograms. Especially if you have the risk factors mentioned in this article.
It is true that sometimes it's better to use more than one tool in order to make sure one is tumor-free. And it's all about catching any possible tumor as soon as possible. Whatever you do, don't wait for it to show up as a lump - I had Stage 2 breast cancer and never had a perceptible lump - not even to doctors!
Over 40? Be sure you get your mammogram (and whatever other relevant tests you might need) annually.
Interesting...
Something for me (and many of you reading this) to ask our doctors about the next time we have our annual mammograms. Especially if you have the risk factors mentioned in this article.
It is true that sometimes it's better to use more than one tool in order to make sure one is tumor-free. And it's all about catching any possible tumor as soon as possible. Whatever you do, don't wait for it to show up as a lump - I had Stage 2 breast cancer and never had a perceptible lump - not even to doctors!
Over 40? Be sure you get your mammogram (and whatever other relevant tests you might need) annually.
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