Estrogen matters : why taking hormones in menopause can improve women's well-being and lengthen their lives -- without raising the risk of breast cancer Cover Image

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Estrogen matters : why taking hormones in menopause can improve women's well-being and lengthen their lives -- without raising the risk of breast cancer / Avrum Bluming, MD, and Carol Tavris, PhD.

Bluming, Avrum, (author.). Tavris, Carol, (author.).

Summary:

"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 flashes 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. They investigate what led the public -- and much of the medical establishment -- to accept the Women's Health Initiative's often exaggerated claims, while also providing a fuller picture of the science that supports HRT. A sobering and revelatory read, Estrogen Matters sets the record straight on this beneficial treatment and provides an empowering path to wellness for women everywhere."--Provided by the publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0316481203
ISBN: 9780316481205
Physical Description: 310 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Who killed HRT? -- Does estrogen cause breast cancer? -- The "change of life" and the quality of life -- Matters of the heart -- Breaking bad -- Losing and using our minds -- Can breast cancer survivors take estrogen? -- Progesterone and the pill -- Debates, decisions, and final lessons in the case for HRT.