Marty Makary: “The headline that hormone replacement therapy causes breast…”

“And you just heard how that study was misrepresented and created a fear machine that lingers to this day. Ask your doctor. But what you may not know is that there was an incredible backstory. The headline that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer was released to the media before the scientific data was released to the public a week later. Once the data was published, some of us looked at it and said, this is interesting. There's no statistical significance in the increase in breast cancer.” (11:55–12:05)

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