The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
even the Women's Health Initiative and one of the subsequent papers said that the women who had been randomized to hormones and have gotten breast cancer had a lower risk of dying from breast cancer than the control group that didn't get hormones
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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the women who had been randomized to hormones and have gotten breast cancer had a lower risk of dying from breast cancer than the control group that didn't get hormones
even assuming those risks we know that women who were diagnosed with breast cancer while on hormones have a better prognosis stage 4 stage and women who were diagnosed not taking hormones