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

there has been no decline in breast cancer rates among black women. Besides, the overwhelming majority of women who take HRT do not develop breast cancer, and the overwhelming majority of women who do develop breast cancer do not take HRT—and you have no evidence that the decline occurred only among women who had been on HRT and stopped. And by the way, in Norway, where women went off HRT following the Women’s Health Initiative at the same rates as here, there was no decline in breast cancer. How, then, can you claim credit on behalf of the WHI for a decline in breast cancer rates in America but not Norway, and only among white women?”