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If you had radiation, when did you start hormone therapy?
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@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.
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@wildapple50
How about these links
https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/does-hormone-replacement-therapy-increase-cancer-risk.h00-159699123.html
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(12)70456-4/abstract
Even estrogen produced by our own body can increase the risk of breast cancer as we get old. When evaluating the risk of breast cancer, there are questions regarding when the menstrual cycle begins and ends. The later the cycles end the higher the risk.
Anyway the original question is not about the safety of HRT. It’s about when we should start either AIs or Tamoxifen after radiation. I started anastrozole two weeks after radiation.