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Nature Clinical Practice Oncology (2007) 4, 213
doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0443  

Long-term estrogen-only HRT increases the risk of breast cancer

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Whether postmenopausal women who use estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have an increased risk of breast cancer is unclear. Lyytinen and colleagues, therefore, investigated the effects of different doses, constituents, and administration routes of estrogen-only HRT on the risk of breast cancer in a cohort of Finnish women.

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