What is the link between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer?
What is the link between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer?
Doctors used to think hormone replacement therapy was all bad for breast cancer, but that's changed. In this video, HealthMaker and oncology professor Robert Clarke, PhD, DSc, says it depends on how HRT is constructed and the hormones used.
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