Changes to This Summary (04/18/2013)
The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.
Added Hormone therapy (estrogen plus progestin) as a new subsection.
Revised text to state that based on fair evidence, conjugated equine estrogens do not affect that incidence of, or survival from invasive colorectal cancer.
Added text about the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial that examined the effect of combined estrogen and progestin therapy and estrogen-only therapy on colorectal cancer incidence and mortality (cited Simon et al. as reference 73).
Added text to state that the estrogen-only intervention component of the WHI was conducted among women who had a hysterectomy, with colorectal cancer incidence included as a secondary trial endpoint; colorectal cancer incidence was not decreased among women who had taken estrogens (cited Ritenbaugh et al. as reference 74).
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