1: For many years, the long-entrenched standard practice for postmenopausal women was hormone replacement therapy or HRT. 

Then, in 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHI) published the results of a large clinical trial. The research involved thousands of older women and analyzed the health outcomes of women taking HRT versus those who did not. 

“The study reported a 24 percent relative increase in the risk of breast cancer among … continue reading