by APFLI | Oct 21, 2010 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
[NOTE: Keep in mind that HRT — Hormone Replacement Therapy — uses the same artificial hormones that are used in chemical birth control methods.] Prempro is a “drug that relieves hot flashes but raises the risk of the two biggest cancer killers in...
by APFLI | Apr 19, 2007 | Studies - Breast Cancer
Women who take hormone replacement therapy are at a greater risk of developing ovarian cancer and dying from the disease, say scientists. Researchers at Oxford University concluded that 1,000 British women may have died from ovarian cancer since 1991 because they took...
by APFLI | Apr 19, 2007 | Contraception - Adverse Effects: Cancer / Stroke / Abortion
Contracepting the Environment: Environmentalists Mum on Poisoned Streams When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked. Randomly netting 123 trout and other...
by APFLI | May 8, 2006 | Studies - Breast Cancer
Long-term use of estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does increase the risk of breast cancer, a major study suggests. The US study comes just weeks after research appeared to rule out any connection in the short to medium term. Oestrogen-only HRT is...
