MONDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) — Many American women abandoned
hormone replacement therapy after a 2002 study found the treatment was
tied to higher breast cancer risk. A sharp drop in breast cancer incidence
among whites was observed soon after.
However, a new study suggests that the 2002-2003 decline in breast
cancer incidence among white women did not continue through 2007.
The data suggests that the drop in breast cancers linked to women
abandoning hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has now bottomed out.
Breast cancer rates among U.S. white women fell by about 7 percent
between 2002 and 2003 after the release in 2002 of findings from the
Women’s Health Initiative study that linked HRT with an increased risk of
breast cancer.
To examine whether that trend has continued, American Cancer Society
and U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers reviewed breast
cancer data collected from 2000 to 2007 by NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology
and End Results
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