Fred Harteis Health News - U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumors.

The startling new analysis, reported Thursday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, does not prove a link between hormone therapy and breast cancer, but strongly suggests it, many experts said.

"When I saw it, I couldn't believe it," statistician Donald Berry of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ...   more »