Estrogen Tied to Breast Cancer Recurrence

One more study....BD 

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The higher a woman’s estrogen level, the more likely breast cancer will come back, according to new research. The new study reveals that women whose breast cancer came back had almost twice as much estrogen in their blood than women who remained cancer-free.

“While this makes sense, there have been only a few small studies that have looked at the link between sex hormones in the blood and cancer recurrence,” says Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. “This is the largest study to date and the only one to have included women taking agents such as tamoxifen to reduce estrogen’s effect on cancer growth.”

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