Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer

Estrogen Linked to Ovarian Cancer
A large study has found that women who took estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) for a decade or more were twice as likely to die from ovarian cancer as women who did not, reports the Journal of the American Medical Association. For 14 years, researchers tracked 211,581 postmenopausal women with no history of cancer, hysterectomy, or ovarian surgery, finding those who took ERT the longest were at greatest risk for developing cancer.

PCRM research has found that a low-fat, vegan diet—free of estrogen-boosting animal products such as meat and dairy—helps reduce the body's estrogen activity.

Rodriguez C, Patel AV, Calle EE, Jacob EJ, Thun MJ. Estrogen replacement therapy and ovarian cancer mortality in a large prospective study of U.S. women. JAMA. 2001;285:1460-5.

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