There’s general agreement among experts that the risk of breast cancer with HRT should be weighed up against its benefits for helping women through the menopause and beyond.
As a woman’s life expectancy now exceeds 80, many will live a third of their lives after the menopause.
And more than three-quarters of them have menopausal symptoms that affect daily life, such as brain fog, hot flushes, palpitations, difficulty sleeping and low libido. A quarter describe their symptoms as severe.
