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Now more and more people suffering from lung cancer, is what led to this phenomenon happen? Lancet of more than 16.5 thousand post-menopausal women, a study shows that combined hormone replacement therapy will not increase chances of lung cancer, however, and ineffective compared to placebo treatment, hormone replacement therapy actually increased the risk of women dying of lung cancer . A preliminary report showed that a period of five years or so of hormone replacement therapy and lung cancer does not matter. However, the duration of more than two years of follow-up studies have shown that those receiving complementary therapies ─ ─ a compound of estrogen and progesterone treatment ─ ─ in women than in those receiving placebo treated patients suffering from lung cancer is large 71%. The researchers said the use of estrogen treatment can stimulate the growth of blood vessels and thereby promote tumor growth, which also makes the cancer cells spread more rapidly. In addition, they said that the merger might affect the hormone therapy of lung cancer diagnostic imaging technology medical imaging. Warning: Although the scope of this study is large, but the number of people suffering from lung cancer, a very limited ─ ─ less than 200, so the chance of research results may be greatly affected. 2010-01-07
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