Hormone therapy not tied to breast cancer recurrence, mortality
In postmenopausal women treated for early-stage oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, neither vaginal oestrogen therapy nor menopausal hormone therapy is associated with an increased risk for recurrence or mortality, according to a study published online on 20 July in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Søren Cold, MD, from Odense University in Denmark, and colleagues used longitudinal data from a national cohort of postmenopausal women, diagnosed in 1997 to 2004 with early-stage invasive oestrogen receptor-positive nonmetastatic breast cancer.