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au0rei
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3 years ago

HRT (Estrogen and Progesterone Hormone Replacement Therapy) After cancer for menopause?

Hi ladies, As the title states, is there any one of you who are menopausal (either due to chemo or ageing) doing HRT/MRT to manage your menopausal symptoms? I am researching into HRT. I ...
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au0rei
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3 years ago
Julez1958 said:
Hi @au0rei
Was your cancer ER positive?
My understanding is that if that is the case any HRT would not be recommended.
Best to check with an oncologist .

Thanks @jul@Julez1958 Mine was ER negative. But even with ER positive cancer, it is not estrogen that causes the cancer, rather estrogen can possibly feed the cancer and causes it to grow faster.