Million women study

The Million Women Study reported that current use of hormone therapy increased breast cancer risk and breast cancer mortality. Increased incidence was observed for estrogen only, estrogen plus progestogen, and for tibolone. 

Million Women Study Collaborators (2003) Breast cancer and hormone-replacement therapy in the Million Women Study. Lancet 362 419-427... 

Million Women Study Current users of HRT more likely than never-users to develop breast cancer (170)... 

The Million Women Study in the UK (18) has been criticized on various grounds by some proponents of hormone replacement therapy, notably because in their view the number of deaths from breast cancer was too small and the follow-up too short to justify the belief that HRT increases the risk of death from breast cancer discrepancies between this and other studies have also been stressed (19). The interpretation of the study in the editorial that accompanied it has also been criticized as being unduly pessimistic. However, the fact remains that the study is not the only source of serious doubts about the benefit to harm balance of hormone replacement therapy. 

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, 2005. MHRA Latest data on HRT from the UK Million Women Study. Available at http //www.mhra.gov.uk/home/ groups/comms-po/documents/news/con002085.pdf [Accessed 08 October 2008],... 

On November 8, she embarked for France to return once more to the laboratory of the Curie Institute. France could not see America outdo her m veneration for this great woman. Before she returned, the French Government voted a million and a half francs for the construction of a huge factory-laboratory for the study of radioactive elements. The plans for this unique laboratory had been outlined by Mme. Curie and Professor Urbain, Director of the Chemical Institute of the University of Paris. 

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