Estrogen alone, post-hysterectomy, is not only safe, it lowers breast cancer risk by 23%

The evidence, via the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment Journal, is in. I wish I'd known.

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This will be a quickie, just to get this information out there. Once again, I will use my own body as both cautionary tale and object lesson.

In 2012, I had a hysterectomy after sixteen years of suffering from adenomyosis. Which, ugh, my spell check STILL doesn’t accept as real. Same with trachelectomy (cervix r…