Hormones raise risk of misdiagnosis
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Combined hormone therapy to ease menopause symptoms such as hot flashes raises the risk of getting incorrect mammograms and biopsy tests to detect breast cancer, the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center has found.
Women taking a combination of estrogen and progesterone for five years were 11% more likely to have an irregular mammogram than those not taking the pills, according to the report in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine.
