Prempro Premarin and Breast Cancer

Women who take estrogen drugs with progestin drugs have about a 50% increased risk of breast cancer over those who don't. Prempro is a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) used by six million women to relieve symptoms of menopause. Premarin is also the estrogen used in Prempro.

According to an article in WebMd July 9, 2002 -- Women should stop taking a popular form of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The warning applies to Prempro as well as to other oral, high-dose combinations of estrogen and progestin.A huge clinical trial of Prempro -- the Women's Health Initiative -- came to a screeching halt on May 31. Plans to continue the trial until 2005 have been scrapped. Five-year data show that Prempro increases a woman's risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

"Health practitioners and menopausal women are still reeling from recent studies reporting that hormones, touted as the elixir of youth and health, caused a significant increase in breast cancer, heart disease and blood clots in a combination pill called Prempro Premarin plus Provera." For years, women had been told by doctors that taking estrogen-progestin (such as Prempro) would not only ease hot flashes, insomnia, moods and depression, but would help prevent osteoporosis, heart disease and mental deterioration. Forty years of studies, however, had conflicting results, and the specter of breast, uterine and ovarian cancer hovered as a possible risk of taking hormones.

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