Decline of hormone therapy decreases breast cancer cases, analysis finds
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 18:14
in Health & Medicine
The declining use of hormone therapy among women has led to 6,000 fewer invasive breast cancer cases a year, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research quantifies and advances what doctors had suspected: that the dramatic decline in hormone use beginning in 2002 was the cause of a reduction in the breast cancer rate that began the following year.