← Return to If you had radiation, when did you start hormone therapy?

Discussion
brighterdays avatar

If you had radiation, when did you start hormone therapy?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 29 8:10pm | Replies (51)
Comment receiving replies
Profile picture for myoga @myoga

@wildapple50
Sounds reasonable but researchers suspect the use of HRT increases the risk of certain cancers. https://www.komen.org/breast-cancer/risk-factor/postmenopausal-hormone-use/
Nobody knows for sure what causes cancer in women. We just follow their recommendations. When it comes to my health, I’d rather err on the side of caution.

Jump to this post

Replies to "@wildapple50 Sounds reasonable but researchers suspect the use of HRT increases the risk of certain cancers...."
wildapple50 | @wildapple50 | Mar 26 5:30am

@myoga
The article you gave is referring to estrogen pills and progestin, a synthetic hormone. The same conclusions can't be drawn for body identical (biodentical) patches, creams, gels and progesterone (not progestin).
That's why it's great that we have choices.

VIEW AND REPLY