Researchers unlock how progesterone increases breast cancer risk

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have identified how the hormones progesterone and oestrogen interact to increase cell growth in normal mammary cells and mammary cancers, a novel finding that may explain why postmenopausal women receiving hormone replacement therapy with oestrogen plus progestin are at increased risk of breast cancer...

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