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Further doubt has been cast on a study suggesting hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer.

More than ten years ago, the Million women study was launched. It suggested that women taking HRT were twice as likely to develop breast cancer, and more likely to die from it, than those not taking the therapy.

But in this latest research, experts say women who use HRT should be reassured that the treatment may not increase the risk of breast cancer and that the original study was fundamentally flawed.