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What women with breast cancer should know about estrogens

  • Written by Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageDoctors and patients should appreciate the many roles estrogens play in the body.Doctor and patient image via www.shutterstock.com.

One of every eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer over her lifetime. Eighty percent of those cancers are fueled in part by estrogens.

One treatment for women whose breast cancer is fueled...

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