Hormone replacement therapy can cause cancer

Hormone replacement therapy that is commonly used to relieve some symptoms & used as pill, patch or vaginal ring, may involve a combination of hormones= estrogen & progesterone or only estrogen. According to a report, the daily use of HRT may risk breast cancer by 5-6 % for each year taken. if one takes just estrogen only HRT, then it quintuples risk of uterine cancer. So, doctors advise women to use HRT for shortest possible time.