HRT and breast cancer: recent findings in the context of the evidence to date

Emily Banks1†, Karen Canfell2 & Gillian Reeves3 †Author for correspondence 1The Australian National University, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, ACT, 0200, Australia Tel.: +61 261 250 328; Fax: +61 261 250 740; E-mail: emily.banks@ anu.edu.au 2The Cancer Council New South Wales, Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, Sydney, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011, Australia 3University of Oxford, Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK ‘A common misperception is that HRT has been shown to have significantly different effects in younger compared with older women.’