Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Women who exercise regularly in their teens and young adulthood lower their risk of developing breast cancer before menopause compared with those who are more sedentary, a new U.S. study has found.
"The results really don't directly translate to how we see women getting hormone therapy in the real world of current American medicine," Colditz said.
Dr. Graham Colditz, a Washington University researcher who co-wrote the editorial, noted that duration of estrogen use as directed was pretty short during the study, averaging about 3 1/2 years, and most women started taking the hormone years after a hysterectomy or after menstrual periods ended.
