Short-term Cessation of Hormone Replacement Therapy and Improvement of Mammographic Specificity

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A recent study by Laya et al. ( 1 ), comparing 8779 current, never, and former users of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), found a significant reduction in both the sensitivity and the specificity of mammography associated with current hormone administration. An accompanying editorial ( 2 ) suggested that the effects of HRT should be reversible, since the specificity and sensitivity for former users were...

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