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These findings suggest that the choice of the progestagen component in combined HRT is of importance regarding breast cancer risk; it could be preferable to use progesterone or dydrogesterone.
Women with bothersome symptoms who haven't had a hysterectomy must take estrogen with a progestagen to prevent estrogen-induced endometrial (uterine) cancer, and some progestagens appear to increase the risk of breast cancer.
Lower systemic progestagen levels in women taking ET in conjunction with LNG-IUS have been shown.
 
 
 
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