Synthetic Hormones Cause Cancer – Bio-Identical Hormones Prevent Cancer
October 21, 2010, Scottsdale, AZ – A new study released yesterday from extended analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) reveals that postmenopausal women taking combined Synthetic Hormone Therapy have an increased risk of being diagnosed with a more advanced stage of breast cancer and dying from it than women who did not take synthetic hormones.
The eleven year follow-up of 16,608 WHI postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 years, published in this week’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that 385 women (0.42 percent) receiving hormones for an average of 5.6 years, developed invasive breast cancer, compared with 293 women (0.34 percent) who received a placebo.
The media’s reporting of this study outcome appears to incriminate all types of hormone therapy, whether Synthetic or Bio-Identical.
An accurate portrayal of objective data comparing the use of Synthetic vs Bio-identical hormones reveals that synthetic Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) increases the risk of breast cancer by 40%, while Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) reduces the risk of breast cancer by 10 to 30%.
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