Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Study: hotter the flashes, cooler the rates of breast cancer

Women awakened in the middle of the night by hot flashes might find a bit of cool comfort in a new research study showing that women who experienced hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms were much less likely to have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center say women who experienced hot flashes and other symptoms had a 40 to 60 percent reduction in the rate of invasive ductal and invasive lobular carcinoma, two of the most common types

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