Modern medicine is hidden factor in breast cancer.

A sudden, large decline in the diagnosis of breast cancer has occurred due to the decline in use of hormone replacement therapy by women over age 50. As prescriptions for hormone replacement (estrogen) have declined in the US from 62 million to 18 million per year from 2000 to 2005, the rate of breast cancer has dropped from 135 to 126 per 1000,000 women. This means about 30,000 more American women are free of breast cancer in a short period of time, a period of just 2 years under recent analysis. About 200,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. The decline was 11.8% for women age 50-69 years of age. [New England Journal Medicine 356:1670-1674, 2007] This information indicts modern medicine has been one of the leading risk factors for breast cancer as it intuitively prescribed estrogen pills rather than relying upon scientific evidence.