a drop in breast cancer due to less medications

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Since less hormone replacement therapy is used look at the results? A big study in 2002 suggested that the combination of estrogen and progestin raised the risk of breast cancer and brought a premature halt to a Women’s Health Initiative study of more than 16,600 women between 50 and 79 who were taking hormones. The news caused widespread alarm and confusion. More analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative also showed that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could raise the risk of heart disease and especially strokes, and HRT was abandoned except as a way to relieve the most debilitating and stressful symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes and insomnia. Ravdin said about 30 percent of American women over the age of 50 had been taking HRT in the early years of this decade but about half of the women stopped in the later part of 2002 after the results of this link were made public. Do you think Drs will stop prescribing HRT's?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16206352/