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Women on HRT who experience breast tenderness at greater risk of cancer

breast cancer awareness ribbonWomen who reported new-onset breast tenderness following use of estrogen-plus-progestin hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were at a much greater risk of developing breast cancer than women on the same HRT who did not report tenderness in their breasts, according to a study by researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California – Los Angeles.

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