Hormone Replacement Treatment and mammography may explain raise in breast cancer in Norway
Hormon Replacement Treatment as well as introduction of public mammography screening may explain the increased number of breast cancer cases in Norway the last two decades explains Head of Department of Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway, Steinar Tretli in a recent podcast from the British Medical Journal.
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Hormon Replacement Treatment during menopause and introduction of public mammography screening may explain much of the the increase in the number of breast cancer cases in Norway the last two decades. This is the main message from Head of Department of Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway, Steinar Tretli in a recent podcast from the British Medical Journal.
The topic of the half hour long podcast titled “Menopause HRT, and cancer” was older women’s health and Steinar Tretli was interviewed in the last part of the programme.
The background for the podcast is a recent study by researchers at the Cancer Registry of Norway and the Universities in Trondheim and Tromsø published in the British Medical Journal.
