HORMONE THERAPY: LIVING WITH A CATCH-22 (PREVENTING DISEASE)
The trouble is you can't let yourself off the hook by settling for something in the middle either, such as taking hormones for just a couple of years and hoping to prevent disease. Dr. Graham Colditz, co principal investigator on the Harvard Nurses' Health Study, a major study of women's health issues, feels the issue comes down to a painful catch-22. Since you need to take hormones for a long period of time to achieve heart and bone health benefits, he says, and long-term therapy has been associated with increased breast cancer risk, you can only achieve the benefits at the price of the risks. His advice to women in the gray area is not to take HRT, because there are so many ways to prevent heart disease through lifestyle changes, but so little you can do to prevent breast cancer. But plenty of other experts are quick to retort that you can catch breast cancer early, with mammography, while you may have a heart attack before any problem is diagnosed.
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