A large study provides reassurance for women taking hormone replacement therapy after menopause. (Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2008; 107: 103-111) Performed in France, the study involved follow-up of 80,000 post-menopausal women treated with varying formulations of hormones, or with no hormones. Average duration of follow-up was eight years.

Compared with women taking no hormones, the incidence of invasive breast cancer in women taking estrogen alone was 30% higher. However, in women taking estrogen plus bioidentical progesterone, there was NO increase in breast cancer incidence. Women taking artificial progestins had the worst results, a 69% increase in breast cancer incidence.

The type of estrogen used and the route of administration made no difference. The crucial factor was the type of progesterone used. Synthetic progesterone increased breast cancer risk, while bioidentical formulations lowered breast cancer incidence to the level of women taking no hormones whatever.

Allan Sosin, M.D.

(The following is a true story written by Dr. Sosin about an amazing success we recently experienced with one of our patients. A testimonial link is provided at the end.)

THE DRUG BOX
January 12, 2008

Once there was a girl who was put into a box.

            When she was five months old she had meningitis.  She began to lose her hearing. Within the next few years she became completely deaf.  She was taught how to lip-read, and she could sign, and she became able to speak intelligibly in the guttural voice that deaf people have.  In her childhood she loved to read books and write stories.

            When she was three years old, she began to have seizures.  They seemed to be a consequence of the meningitis.  She had big, grand mal seizures, and small, petit mal seizures.  She was given medications for the seizures, which controlled the grand mal seizures although she sometimes still had the small ones.

            When she was twelve years old, her brother committed suicide, and she found his body on her bed.  In the course of time her parents divorced, and she spent most of her time with her mother. (more…)