hormone therapy

Postmenopausal women who use hormone replacement therapy face a 29% increased risk of ovarian cancer, according to a study.

Contradicts prior studies that suggest women taking the drugs had less aggressive, easier-to-treat breast cancers.

LONDON (AP) -- Men with prostate cancer being treated with hormone therapy have a slightly higher risk of developing a blood clot, new research says....

(University of Gothenburg) Hormone therapy is often given to patients with advanced prostate cancer. While it is true that the treatment prevents growth of the tumor, it also changes its properties.

Some of these changes may result in the tumor becoming more aggressive and more liable to form metastases.

This is one of the conclusion of a thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

On July 9, 2002, investigators in charge of the Women's Health Initiative, the largest, most ambitious examination of menopausal women, abruptly stopped one part of the study three years ahead of schedule.

They took this unusual step after finding that a routinely prescribed combination of two ho...

Going off hormone-replacement therapy reduces the elevated risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. The question is, how fast?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Add another risk to hormone therapy after menopause: Benign breast lumps. One type of hormone therapy - estrogen plus progestin - already is well-known to increase the risk of breast cancer.

But a major study of women able to use estrogen alone didn't find that link....