«Experts» who are saying that
synthetic progestins increase breast cancer risk are right, but, we've known that since 2002.
Yes,
synthetic progestins increase breast cancer, but there is no evidence that progesterone does the same.
Not exact matches
Synthetic estrogens and synthetic progestins have many side effects, increased risk of cance
Synthetic estrogens and
synthetic progestins have many side effects, increased risk of cance
synthetic progestins have many side effects,
increased risk of cancer is one.
(8)(43) Rather, the 2008 French Cohort Study by Fournier showed that in women using hormone replacement combination drugs,
increased breast cancer was associated with
synthetic progestin use, while women using bioidentical progesterone had no
increased breast cancer (compared to non-hormone users).
Dr. Lee emphasizes to his readers that conventional HRT contains
synthetic progestins and not natural progesterone, and that there is no evidence that using natural progesterone as he recommends,
increases the risk of breast cancer, and plenty of clinical evidence that it probably protects against breast cancer.
Then their physicians tried to convince them that once they had reached menopause they should automatically go on hormone replacement therapy featuring
synthetic estrogens and
progestins, only to find it was
increasing their risk of deadly diseases rather than saving them from the aging process.
They rightly observed that many
progestins — the
synthetic, molecularly altered forms of progesterone found in pharmaceutical drugs — have been clearly shown to
increase rather than decrease breast cancer risks.