Seattle Times health reporter Carol Ostrom has a nice summary of the findings of a controversial new study by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Watch video interview with Andrea LaCroix, co-principal investigator on the study.
In a large study of older women, taking multivitamins did not reduce the risk of heart disease or cancer—nor did it appear to prolong life. Marian L. Neuhouser, Ph.D from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Division of Public Health Sciences was the lead author of the paper, which appears on the February 9 issue of [...]
A woman’s risk of breast cancer drops “markedly” after she stops taking hormone therapy commonly used to treat menopause, according to a study in this week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Three of the study authors are from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: Ross L. Prentice, Garnet Anderson, and Aaron K. [...]
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