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Oestrogen Matters - Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives - Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (Paperback)
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Oestrogen Matters - Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives - Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (Paperback)
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Loot Price R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
You Save R80 (18%)
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'I believe it is an ethical imperative for all clinicians who treat
women in menopause or women with breast cancer to alert their
patients to this book' Michael Baum, MD, Professor Emeritus of
Surgery and visiting professor of Medical Humanities, University
College London 'A thorough, careful and unbiased assessment . . .
This extremely valuable message deserves to be widely disseminated'
Lord Turnberg, former President of the Royal College of Physicians
A compelling defence of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the
faulty science behind its fall from prominence and empowering
readers to make informed decisions about their health. For years,
hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle. Study
after study showed that HRT, if initiated at the onset of
menopause, could ease symptoms ranging from hot flushes to memory
loss; reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis,
and some cancers; and even extend a woman's overall life
expectancy. But when a large study by the Women's Health Initiative
announced results showing an uptick in breast cancer among women
taking HRT, the winds shifted abruptly, and HRT, officially deemed
a carcinogen, was abandoned. Now, sixteen years after HRT was left
for dead, Dr Bluming, a medical oncologist, and Dr Tavris, a social
psychologist, track its strange history and present a compelling
case for its resurrection. They investigate what led the public -
and much of the medical establishment - to accept the Women's
Health Initiative's often exaggerated claims, while also providing
a fuller picture of the science that supports HRT. A sobering and
revelatory read, Oestrogen Matters sets the record straight on this
beneficial treatment and provides an empowering path to wellness
for women everywhere.
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