The bad news about hormone replacement therapy just keeps getting worse. This time, a study out of Denmark draws a clear relationship between HRT and an increased risk of ovarian cancer.

How much more bad news do we have to get about HRT before it's finally banned?

Remember several years ago, when directors of the Women's Health Initiative study put the brakes on their research and told the women involved to stop taking HRT? They had seen a spike in the risks of breast cancer, blood clots, stroke, and heart attack.

And just last month ("World's most fatal cancer made more deadly with HRT," 6/10/09) I told you about the study that showed that hormone users who developed lung cancer were 60% more likely to die from the disease than women who weren't taking hormones.

Yet doctors just kept on prescribing it, possibly writing out death sentences for countless women!

And the news hasn't gotten any better since then. The latest comes from Denmark, where a study of ALL Danish women aged 50-79 from 1995-2005 revealed that women on hormone therapy had a 38% increased risk of ovarian cancer.

It didn't make a difference what formulation, regimen, or type of progestin was used.

Ovarian cancer is highly fatal.

If you know someone who is still using HRT, it's not too late—risk of ovarian cancer declined with longer time since HRT use.

There ARE other—safer—options.

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy uses hormones identical to those found in women's bodies. And some research has shown that it can actually reduce your Alzheimer's risk.

Dr. Wright has seen great success with bio-identical HRT in his clinic. You can read more about this safer alternative to conventional HRT in the article "Hormone replacement therapy can be safe-when you put back the missing ingredient: Nature" here.

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