Peter Attia· MD
for every 1,000 women who were put on HRT, an additional one got breast cancer, though she didn't die from it, at any increase rate to to the women who didn't get the hormone.
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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.
for every 1,000 women who were put on HRT, an additional one got breast cancer, though she didn't die from it, at any increase rate to to the women who didn't get the hormone.
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For symptomatic perimenopausal women under 60, hormone replacement therapy reduces all-cause mortality.
The breast-cancer risk attributed to HRT in the original WHI trial was overstated and the timing window matters most.