Combined hormone therapy makes breast cancer detection difficult
LA BioMed study finds hormone therapy increases frequency of abnormal mammograms, breast biopsies; may reduce effectiveness of both methods for detecting cancer. – Combined hormone therapy appears to increase the risk that women will have abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies, and it may decrease the effectiveness of both methods for detecting breast cancer, according to a report in the Feb. 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
