Women need to be fully informed about risks of hormone replacement therapy

(The possibility that postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy who develop breast cancer have a better prognosis than those not taking hormone replacement therapy should not be an argument for mass treatment.) Suicide has been found to occur in more women taking hormone replacement th...

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Published inBMJ Vol. 312; no. 7041; p. 1301
Main Authors Price, Elizabeth H, Little, Helen Kaye
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England British Medical Association 18.05.1996
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
BMJ Group
Subjects
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - etiology
Cardiovascular disease
Estrogen Replacement Therapy - adverse effects
Female
Heart diseases
Hormone replacement therapy
Humans
Letter
Letters
Menopause
Patient Education as Topic
Risk Factors
Side effects
Suicide
Womens health
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Summary:(The possibility that postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy who develop breast cancer have a better prognosis than those not taking hormone replacement therapy should not be an argument for mass treatment.) Suicide has been found to occur in more women taking hormone replacement therapy than expected; not all of these women had a psychiatric history. 3 The mood swings of women taking hormone replacement therapy have been analysed 4 but may still not be recognised as side effects of a mood altering and possibly addictive drug.
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.312.7041.1301