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Hormone Replacement Therapy
Do synthetic hormones such as the oral contraceptive pill and HRT increase your risk of breast cancer? This question has stimulated controversy and debate for decades. A number of studies have suggested a connection between synthetic hormone use and breast cancer, while others have refuted any such link. Partly this is because both “the pill” …
Tamoxifen and Arimidex
This year more than 2,300 new Zealand women will learn that they have breast cancer. While still in shock from their diagnosis, they will be faced with numerous treatment decisions. One of the most perplexing and complicated of these decisions will be the question of long term pharmaceutical intervention in the hope of preventing a …