a 50 percent decrease in the risk of developing or dying of colon cancer. And a USC study reported a 35 percent decrease in the risk of Alzheimer’s. Among women with no history of breast cancer, studies found that estrogen did not increase the risk of developing it, even among women who had been taking estrogen for ten to fifteen years. Most remarkable, women taking estrogen were living longer than women who were not taking hormones. A 1997 report in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that “HRT should increase life expectancy for nearly all postmenopausal women by up to 3
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