Peter Attia· MD
Because you know that in the Women's Health Initiative, people who used estrogen had a decreased risk of getting and dying from breast cancer. Our patients don't know this, right?
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Because you know that in the Women's Health Initiative, people who used estrogen had a decreased risk of getting and dying from breast cancer. Our patients don't know this, right?
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Women who were on the estrogen alone, so they didn't have a uterus, so they didn't need the progesterine therapy, had a decreased risk of getting and dying from breast cancer.