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1. Hormone Replacement Therapy may trigger higher cancer risk.
A recent follow-up study to the affects of hormone replacement therapy suggests new risks for other cancers, particularly lung tumors, for women who had taken HRT for a period of 5 years or more. These risks had not been seen in the original HRT study and were completely unanticipated as stated by the author of the follow-up analysis.