Estrogen replacement therapy speeds ovarian cancer growth, new study reports
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 02:30
in Health & Medicine
Estrogen therapy used by menopausal women causes a type of ovarian cancer to grow five times faster, according to a new study. The effect of ERT was shown in mouse models of estrogen receptor positive(ER+) ovarian cancer, which accounts for about 60 percent of all human ovarian cancer cases.