It used to be standard practice: a woman stopped having her menstrual cycles and she went on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to relieve symptoms of menopause.
That practice was abruptly halted in 2002 when part of a large study - the Women's Health Initiative - was stopped because of a reported link between HRT and increased incidence of breast cancer.
Another even larger study in England - the Million Women Study - reached the same conclusions and also announced...