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Study links cancer to hormone therapy

May 31, 2009

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Florida ORLANDO - There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests. Hormone users who developed lung cancer were 60 percent more likely to die from the disease as women who weren't taking hormones, according to results reported yesterday. The new ... (Full article: 238 words)

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