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

Throughout the 1980s, a series of large-scale studies from the Centers for Disease Control’s Cancer and Steroid Hormone (CASH) Study repeatedly found no significant association between oral contraceptive use and breast cancer, even when it was used at an early age, before first pregnancy, at the time of diagnosis, or in women with a family history of breast cancer.