Hormone Replacement Therapy And Breast Cancer

Written by Patricia T. Kelly, Ph. D.


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HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND BREAST CANCER: THE RISKS IN PERSPECTIVE

Janet M., a fifties-something woman, entered my office and said as she sat down, "I've read that if I take hormones I'll increase my breast cancer risk. I'm going crazy without sleep and with these mood swings, but I don't want to increase my breast cancer risk by taking hormones."

Like many women, Janet had heard that a recent study,repparttar 115715 Women's Health Initiative (WHI), definitively showed that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) increases breast cancer risk. Janet, like most people, didn't realize that this study found no statistically significant increase in breast cancer risk to women who took HRT.

When differences are not significant, an increase in risk may well be due to other factors, notrepparttar 115716 one being studied, such as HRT use. As often happens when a medical story is reported,repparttar 115717 emphasis was onrepparttar 115718 increase in risk, not whetherrepparttar 115719 increase was likely to be due torepparttar 115720 agent being studied or torepparttar 115721 size ofrepparttar 115722 risk.

The actual size of a risk is important in any woman's decision making process. In this caserepparttar 115723 risk was exceedingly small -- only 8 in 10,000 women a year -- which is 0.08% or eight hundredths of one percent! Janet was amazed to learnrepparttar 115724 actual size ofrepparttar 115725 increase, and said, "You mean I was getting all concerned for a risk that small!"

"And," I pointed out, "even this very small difference in risk may not be due to hormone use." I explained that breast cancers take an average of eight years to reach about half an inch in size. This means that breast cancers started inrepparttar 115726 first year ofrepparttar 115727 study would not be detected for eight or more years. The study followed women for only about five years, so all or most ofrepparttar 115728 breast cancers found were probably present in an undetected state beforerepparttar 115729 study began.

2 Exercises to Avoid

Written by Marc David


If you want a good night, then avoid two of these old school moves.

Good Mornings:

Although I can't say I've seen these moves done in quite some time, I know that growing up I saw plenty of pictures of howrepparttar move should be done. If I had more then 3 wishes left in this lamp, I wish that somebody would go find every book and every website with this exercise and cross it out with a Sharpie pen.

I have a very good friend, who will remain nameless, that gave me another tidbit of advice. He's been instrumental in helping me train legs. I've never pushed myself so hard. So when he gives advice, I know it's coming from a reliable source that's much better then any scientific study.

He began with some good mornings. At first it wasrepparttar 115714 bar. Then it was 20 lbs. on each side. Pretty soon he was doing 225 lbs. That's a lot of weight. But havingrepparttar 115715 strength to do it andrepparttar 115716 youth, he pushed on. Until one day, POP! Forward he went, with 225 lbs. How he didn't break his neck is somewhat of a miracle.

As with any exercise, andrepparttar 115717 motivation of a bodybuilder, we will continue to push ourselves to new limits. But some exercises just don't produce any results worthrepparttar 115718 inherent risks associated. Good mornings are one of those exercises. There are many other options for compound movements that dorepparttar 115719 same thing but with much less of a risk. So skiprepparttar 115720 good mornings and try some dead-lifts or stiff-legged dead-lifts. You won't be missing out on anything by skippingrepparttar 115721 good mornings except maybe weeks of recovery or a broken neck.

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