Synthetic HRT linked once again to causing breast cancer

(NaturalNews) A Canadian Cancer Society study has discovered what many other studies from around the world have found: that synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers observed that among women who had stopped taking HRT drugs, there was a 10 percent decrease in breast cancer compared to women still taking the drugs.

"The drop in breast cancer incidence was fairly significant," said Prithwish De, an epidemiologist with the Canadian Cancer Society, and author of the study. "We saw a 10 percent drop in the incidence rate of breast cancer from 296 per 100,000 women to about 278 per 100,000."

In 2002, a large Women's Health Initiative clinical trial in the U.S. revealed not only that HRT drugs increase women's risk of breast cancer, but they can also cause heart attack, stroke and blood clots in the lungs. The results of this study led to a more than 60 percent drop in the number of women willing to take HRT drugs.

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