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Ovarian cancer still become the terrible specter for most of women. The cause is cancer which attacks the ovary is usually known when the stadium is on the go. That's why ovarian cancer have been used as the Silent Killer.
For you who are doing hormone therapy, you need to be cautious. Because hormone therapy may be a trigger of the emergence of ovary cancer. This is not new findings. A study from Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University in Denmark strengthens the statement that hormone therapy in close relation with the increased risk of cancer.
"Previous studies have connected hormone therapy with the ovarium cancer, but this study is believed as the largest and most detailed study on this matter," said study leader, Lina Morch, as quoted from the Webmd site.
In the research, Lina Morch and team of researcher at Rigshospitalet evaluated more than 909,000 Danish women, ages 50 to 79. After following the development of the participants during the eight years, 3,068 cases of ovarian cancer were found. Some 63 percent of the participants did not use hormone therapy before, while 9 percent are undergoing hormone therapy.
Compared with those who have never been to hormone therapy, women who are currently receiving hormone therapy have a 38 percent higher risk of ovarian cancer. Those who have stopped using the therapy for two years has a same risk to that who are never use.
Meanwhile, by the time women had been off the hormone therapy for more than six years, the risk of ovarian cancer was nearly 40% less in these past users than the never users. Morch says that finding is based on a low number of women who had quit hormone therapy for more than six years.
"What is important is the risk declines in former users with increasing time since last use," she says. And For those currently on hormone therapy, the risk of getting ovarian cancer didn't differ much among the various therapies, doses, or administration, Morch found.
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