Women's Health
Progesterone
Why systemic estrogen is prescribed with a progestogen, which progestogens the evidence distinguishes between, and why the route of administration decides whether endometrial protection happens at all.
Why systemic estrogen is prescribed with a progestogen, which progestogens the evidence distinguishes between, and why the route of administration decides whether endometrial protection happens at all.
In 80,377 postmenopausal women followed for eight years, estrogen combined with progesterone carried a relative risk of 1.00 for breast cancer. Estrogen combined with other progestagens carried 1.69. The estrogen was the same; the progestogen was not.
August 20, 20264 minGuideProgesterone