ABSTRACT
The view of menopause as an abnormality to be corrected is not new. In 1937, the respected British Medical Journal carried a popular and revealing article: Practically every menopausal woman becomes aware of a certain mental clumsiness. In an attempt to make sense of the many studies that have been conducted on the risk of breast cancer and post-menopausal hormone use. Researchers conducted an analysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies from 21 countries, mostly in North America and Europe. Included for analysis were 52,705 women with breast cancer and 108,411 women without a diagnosis of breast cancer. The conclusions are quite clear: women and men have been the experimental objects of some flawed practices. Corporate and governmental bodies have sanctioned the use of chemicals that have affected our bodies directly and indirectly. The promotional literature urges we women to confer with our doctors to decide if hormone replacement is for us.
