Posted on 03/05/2023 3:37:05 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Controversies surrounding hormone therapy (HT) and its benefits and risks have dominated the women's health field for more than 2 decades. A large new study demonstrates that, despite some commonly held misperceptions, HT doesn't increase a woman's risk of developing lung cancer, and it could actually help reduce the risk.
Lung cancer remains one of the most common malignancies and the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. After breast cancer, it is the most common cancer in women, with its incidence increasing in women over the past few decades. Although smoking remains the number-one risk factor for developing lung cancer, it is estimated that from 20% to 50% of affected women are nonsmokers.
Study results have been inconsistent regarding the association between HT and the risk of lung cancer development, with some suggesting HT leads to greater risk and others stating it results in lower risk. This latest study, which is based on data from more than 38,000 postmenopausal women, sought to investigate the association between HT and lung cancer risk based on dosage.
After 16 years of follow-up, the study's researchers concluded that HT is not associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in postmenopausal women. In fact, it found that with a higher cumulative dosage of HT or a therapy duration that was longer than 5 years, the risk of developing lung cancer was lower.
"This population-based study showed that hormone therapy use was not associated with lung cancer risk and, further, that it may be linked with a lower risk of lung cancer. This is reassuring for women weighing the cumulative risks and benefits of hormone therapy for management of menopause symptoms or osteoporosis prevention," says Dr. Stephanie Faubion, NAMS medical director.
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What KIND of HT? It probably does matter.
You typically get tested for each hormone then get a prescription that raises your hormones to an appropriate level.
Yes, I know. There are pills, gels, bio-identical creams, etc...some are based upon horse urine. I get tested at least annually and am prescribed bio-id hormones in cream form, made by a compounding pharmacy for me from “natural” ingredients...as much as possible. Hormones ingested orally are not very useful.
Exactly. Bioidenticals are best.
But, these studies rarely indicate the Type of hormones...which makes them useless.
Hormones ingested orally are not very useful.
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That’s a claim made by people who sell competing products.
If it were true, you could go to a pharmacy, buy progesterone, swallow 1 gram, and come back here to tell us you’re not sedated.
There are many people who took a pregnenolone capsule and found changes in lab tests expected to be produced by it.
Are you a doctor? Pharma sales person? Just curious.
Not true in my experience.
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