Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (2024 Revised and Updated Edition)

by Carol Tavris

their results in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences under the title “Pitfalls of the Women’s Health Initiative.” Their reanalysis controlled for detection bias and the statistical manipulations that had appeared to indicate danger—and the supposed increased risk of stroke vanished. Far from supporting the WHI’s decision to stop the study, Mastorakos and his colleagues concluded this: “A closer look at the results of the WHI trial reveals that the use of HRT for 5 years should not be considered deleterious for the appearance of breast cancer, cardiovascular diseases, strokes, and pulmonary embolisms.”