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The Study That Scared a Generation of Women — And What It Actually Found
A patient of mine — a physician herself — had a hysterectomy and started transdermal estradiol a few weeks later. Then her breasts began to ache. Not a little. Enough that a seatbelt hurt. Enough that she lay awake at 2 a.m. reading about estrogen and breast cancer and arrived in my office certain she had done something dangerous to her own body. She is a trained clinician. She has read papers. And she was still terrified. That tells you something about how thoroughly one 2002 press conference reshaped what an entire generation of women — including the ones with medical degrees — believe about estrogen. So let's go back to what the Women's Health Initiative actually found. Not the headline. The data.