Medical News Summary: Hormone therapy associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer
About: Hormone therapy associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer
Date: 10 January 2005
Source: Cancer Consultants
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Cancer Consultants): About 25,000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed annually in the US. It is frequently undiagnosed until it has spread. The lifetime risk for developing the disease is % and risk factors include a family history of the condition, age, obesity, history of breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy. A new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine claims that oral hormone therapy does increase the risk of ovarian cancer in women who have not had a hysterectomy. It is the estrogen component of the hormone therapy that increases the risk and not the progesterone component. It was also found that the risk was associated with the cumulative oral estrogen intake and not the length of time the hormone therapy has been taken. Thus, it is advisable to aim to reduce daily estrogen intake as much as possible in order to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.
URL: http://patient.cancerconsultants.com/news.aspx?id=33010
Related Disease Topics: Ovarian cancer, Hysterectomy, Cancer, Breast cancer, Obesity
Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:
- Hormone therapy
- Medication and hormone therapy
- medication and ovarian cancer
- medication and hysterectomy
- medication and cancer
- risk and breast cancer
- risk and obesity
- Cause of hormone therapy
- cause of ovarian cancer
- cause of hysterectomy
- cause of cancer
- Research and hormone therapy
- research and ovarian cancer
- research and hysterectomy
- research and cancer
- Risk and hormone therapy
- risk and ovarian cancer
- risk and hysterectomy
- risk and cancer
- cause of ovarian cancer
- cause of hysterectomy
- cause of cancer
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