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Hormone pills may make lung cancer more deadly
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 05 - 2009


There is more troubling news about
hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems
more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking
estrogen-progestin pills, AP quoted a study as suggesting.
Hormone users who developed lung cancer were 60 percent
more likely to die from the disease as women who were not
taking hormones, according to results reported Saturday.
The new findings mean that smokers should stop taking
hormones, and those who have not yet started hormones
should give it careful thought, said Dr. Rowan Chlebowski
of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He led the
analysis and presented results at a meeting of the oncology
society in Florida.
It's the latest finding from the Women's Health
Initiative, a federal study that gave 16,608 women either
Prempro or dummy pills. The study was stopped in 2002 when
researchers saw more breast cancers in those on Prempro,
the estrogen-progestin pill made by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
They continue to follow what happens to women in the study.
The new analysis looked at non-small-cell lung cancer, by
far the most common type. It found no big difference in the
number of lung cancers that developed in hormone users
after five years on the pills and more than two years of
followup.
However lung cancer proved fatal in 46 percent of hormone
users who developed it versus 27 percent of those given
dummy pills.
«It's another piece of evidence to suggest that hormone
replacement therapy should be used with great caution,»
said Dr. Richard Schilsky, a cancer specialist at the
University of Chicago and president of the American Society
of Clinical Oncology.
Women who take hormones already are advised to use the
lowest dose for the shortest time possible, doctors said.
«Women almost certainly shouldn't be using combined
hormone therapy and tobacco at the same time,» Chlebowski
said.
Still, there have been only 106 lung cancer deaths in the
study so far _ too few to make sweeping conclusions about
risk, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer
Society.
And most women no longer use hormones the way they used
to, said Wyeth's Dr. Joseph Camardo. In the federal study,
women started on them at an average age of 63 and took them
for more than five years. Now, the typical age of starting
is 51 to 54, and average use is two years, Camardo said.
The same risks may not apply with the new patterns of use,
he said.
Researchers have not yet analyzed lung cancer risk in
another part of the federal study that tested estrogen
alone without progestin.
Lung cancer is the world's top cancer killer. In the
United States, there were more than 215,000 new cases and
nearly 162,000 deaths from it last year.


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