Healthy women victims of HRT propaganda

IN A letter published in the Cork Examiner in 1996, I warned that the HRT treatment prescribed for menopausal women was a time-bomb waiting to explode.

Now we’ve just got the news that HRT doubles the risk of breast cancer with a report from the UK that Cancer Research estimates that HRT has caused 20,000 breast cancer cases over the past decade.

The theory of HRT as a protection against heart disease emerged in 1991 from an American study.