Risks of Hormone replacement

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Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer me.

I have a question about a woman that underwent a total hysterectomy

last month for what the doctor's thought might have been uterine cancer.

Thanks be to God it was endometriosis with no cancer at all.

The oncology GYN she has been seeing has put her on a combination

estrogen/progesterone hormone for 3 months to " get rid of any leftover

endometriosis " . She is to stop taking it after the 3 months and start on

estrogen-alone therapy. She doesn't like taking it because she feels as if

it's basically a birth control pill and was wondering if you knew to what

extent my risk of breast cancer goes up with taking it for a short time. Of

course, the doctors' alway tell you the benefits outway the risks, but I

haven't been able to find any statistics on this.

s, FCP