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“Menopausal women who might have been candidates for estrogen plus progestin should now focus on well-proven treatments to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, including measures to prevent and control high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and obesity,”
Claude Lenfant
“We and other investigators have found evidence that estrogen helps protect women from developing Parkinson's. So, a gene variant that would decrease estrogen production or activity would put those women at greater risk for the disease.”
Walter Rocca
“It decreases the production of estrogen which we think feeds the tumor.”
Dr. Merla Puray
“Through the advent of assisted reproduction, and particularly egg donation, it was discovered that estrogen and progesterone could be supplemented, and that this results in perfectly good receptivity of the uterus.”
Dr. Richard J. Paulson
“But in mice deficient in BRCA1, we found that estrogen plus progesterone has a particularly large effect in stimulating the growth of mammary epithelial cells - an effect much greater than the effects of either hormone used alone.”
Eliot Rosen
“All of these patients, younger as well as older, whether they have tumors that have estrogen receptors or tumors that do not, they all show a benefit when you add chemotherapy.”
Bernard Fisher
