HRT 'can increase lung cancer risk'
Monday 21st September 2009
Hormone Replacement therapy (HRT) can raise the risk of dying from lung cancer, it has been claimed.
Research into the wider effects of HRT by biomedical scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre on behalf of the Womens' Health Initiative - which were published in the Lancet - suggested that mortality rates were higher for those on the drugs.
This is despite there being no higher incidence of catching the condition to start with, the experts found.
Dr Apar Kishor Ganti from the University of Nebraska Medical Centre said this meant those women at a high risk of catching lung cancer should avoid HRT.
HRT is used to reproduce oestrogen and progesterone, the hormones associated with female reproduction.
These cease to be produced when the ovaries stop releasing eggs at the menopause.
The NHS website notes that conditions such as cancer of the womb lining are more likely when a woman does not take progesterone, as this substance protects this area.
Written by Mathew Horton
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