Hormone Therapy Impedes Cancer Tests, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Study

Women who take hormones to ease the symptoms of menopause are more likely to have abnormal mammogram results - and, therefore, more breast biopsies - than women who don’t take the therapy, researchers from UCLA found. In addition, the tools used to diagnose breast cancer are less likely to catch malignant tumors in women taking hormone replacement therapy, despite the fact that they have a slightly increased risk of cancer.

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