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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 12 > Estrogen could be of benefit in the breast-cancer battle

Estrogen could be of benefit in the breast-cancer battle

By Blythe Bernhard / The Bulletin
December 12, 2008

ST. LOUIS — Estrogen is medicine’s most two-faced hormone, confusing doctors and patients for decades on its role in the benefits and risks of heart disease and cancer.

Now researchers at Washington University have shown that in some women with breast cancer tumors that....

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