Oestrogen matters : why taking hormones in menopause can improve and lengthen woman's lives - without raising the risk of breast cancer / Dr. Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris, PhD.

Bluming, Avrum, author
Tavris, Carol, author

Revised edition.

London : Piatkus, 2024.

352 pages ; 24 cm

Previous edition: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

For years, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle. Study after study showed that HRT, if initiated at the onset of menopause, could ease symptoms ranging from hot flushes to memory loss; reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, and some cancers; and even extend a woman's overall life expectancy. But when a large study by the Women's Health Initiative announced results showing an uptick in breast cancer among women taking HRT, the winds shifted abruptly, and HRT, officially deemed a carcinogen, was abandoned. Now, sixteen years after HRT was left for dead, Dr Bluming, a medical oncologist, and Dr Tavris, a social psychologist, track its strange history and present a compelling case for its resurrection.

9780349443478 (pbk)

618.175061
618.175

RG186

618.17506

English

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