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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, most women are not on HRT. Long term use has been proven to cause breast cancer, blood clots/MIs/strokes. If you have a hysterectomy with ovaries removed prior to menopause, then HRT may be necessary to lessen the initial shock of instant menopause, but even then it should be closely monitored by a physician. Once natural menopause would have occurred , the HRT should be tapered off.[/quote]

This is just not true. [/quote]
Please explain  how this is untrue.[/quote]

NP here. I have the so called “breast cancer” gene — though no breast cancer yet — and my gynecological oncologist, who specializes in working with people who are BRCA+ (with or without cancer), is fine with her patients doing HRT, so long as they have not already had a particular kind of breast cancer that is estrogen positive. (Ideally, she says, a few years of it, not decades, mind you.)

NB: She’s at one of the major research universities you and everyone else knows. She helped write national guidelines for women at high risk of breast cancer due to genetic factors. She’s a pretty sterling source on whether or not HRT raises your breast cancer risk.[/quote]
But a woman would be safer taking nothing than taking any form of estrogen. Estrogen has been proven to increase breast cancer.[/quote]

This is true, but according to my doc, if you have a family history of cardiac disease or dementia (against both of which estrogen has a protective effect), you may find the trade off worth it. I do.[/quote]

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