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Study: hormone replacement may prevent colon cancer
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2010-02-08 12:15- Breast cancer
- Cancer
- cancer prevention
- colon cancer prevention
- Colorectal cancer
- Endocrinology
- FDA
- Finasteride
- Finasteride
- Gender transitioning
- Hormone replacement therapy
- http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6134XJ20100204
- Lactams
- Medicine
- Prostate cancer
- prostate cancer prevention
- Risk factors of breast cancer
- Tamoxifen
- therapy for colon cancer
Hormone replacement is a difficult and emotional subject, and researchers have made it more complex with findings that women who took hormone replacement were about 1/3 less likely to develop colon cancer.
This was a large observational study, meaning they weren't specifically looking to find such an association. Still, I always look at the magnitude of benefit and the statistics. As a friend once said, I like to see the p-value.
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