For many years women were told that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) offered as Estrogen Therapy (ET) or a combination of Estrogen and Progesterone (Hormone Therapy or HT) was the easy way to avoid any symptoms of the menopause. Women were given either natural or synthetic hormones to reduce hot flashes, headaches, moodiness, insomnia, and vaginal dryness.
One of the reasons that the number of cancer suffers has increased is the fact that many more people undergo routine screening and early detection has increased the number of sufferers. Health care workers estimate that the USA has ten million cancer sufferers, which represents a figure between three and four percent of the population. However it is expected that in the next ten years the proportion will increase as more people are getting older and more people survive cancer.
According to studies, cancer cells can affect any part of your body, even the smallest parts can be afflicted with cancer. The saddest thing about this disease is that the cancer cells can break away from the original part affected and spread out to other parts of your body. You can say that cancer is one of the most uncontrollable and unpredictable diseases known to mankind.