Only 4% of American women now use hormone therapy for menopause, down from over 40% in the late 1990s after the Women's Health Initiative. Yet breast cancer rates rose anyway, not fell, suggesting hormone therapy isn't driving the increase. The caution persists from paternalism, not evidence.
4% of women in this country are using hormone therapy for menopause right now. That's down from over 40% in the late 90s before the women's Health Initiative. And I want to just point out that in the decades that we stopped prescribing hormone therapy, breast cancer did not go down, it went up. We don't know exactly why that is, but it's definitely not from taking hormone therapy. And I do think that it's motivated partly out of concern, but it's a very paternalistic perspective on how women should be cared for and how women should approach their care, and it's coming from women, too.
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