A disturbing new study has found that breast cancer risk in women taking hormone replacement therapy is double of what was earlier thought. It makes the link between HRT and cancer that much clearer.
The findings are likely to impact millions of women across the world that are on the therapy. The study has further found that the risk doesn’t immediately go away as soon as you stop taking the pills. It remains for the next 10 years.
Doctors have urged women on HRT not to panic, but to be vigilant of any signs and symptoms and get themselves regularly assessed.
Breast cancer remains the most common type of cancer among women in India.