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#253 ‒ Hormone replacement therapy and the Women’s Health Initiative: re-examining the results, the link to breast cancer, and weighing the risk vs reward of HRT | JoAnn Manson, M.D.

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The Impact of HRT on Women's Health and Breast Cancer

The speaker has thought about the media's take on women and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), which can differ from the actual data/nThe speaker believes that around 4-5 million women missed out on HRT over the last 23 years, leading to a reduction in breast cancer cases by 4,500/nHRT has benefits in reducing the incidence of breast cancer, even though it did not reduce mortality from breast cancer as a primary outcome

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