Hormone Therapy for Younger Women
August 24, 2009 by Cherie Burbach
Filed under Women's Health
Every day, it seems, we get another opinion on the role of hormone therapy and how it affects women. We’ve heard that hormone replacement therapy can increase the risk of heart attacks and cancer for women. But one doctor now says that might not be the case for women, or at least, younger women.
Dr. Leon Speroff maintains that heart attack risk increased after the age of 70 for women. He also says a “number of studies indicate estrogen therapy very likely does reduce heart disease in women under 60.”
Furthermore, he says estrogen doesn’t increase the risk of cancer, per se, but makes the growth of a tumor already there to get larger more quickly.
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