What is the risk of breast cancer during menopause?
There is an increased risk of breast cancer for women who have used combined hormone therapy for more than five years. This increase is of a similar magnitude to other common risk factors for breast cancer, such as your age of puberty, being older than age 30 when you had your first child, or being overweight. The good news is that the absolute risk for any one person is small, and the risk returns to normal soon after stopping hormone therapy (HT).
