Researchers studied data from the Women's Health Initiative that found several health risks from long-term hormone therapy. They found that of the 10,000 women who had hysterectomies and used estrogen-only therapy, 232 of them had benign proliferative breast disease.
The study is in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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