1.   Another study indicates estrogen increases the risk of ovarian cancer, and still another shows it decreases the risk of colon cancer.

2.   But given alone, estrogen also increases the risk of uterine cancer.

3.   But he said he assumed that topical estrogen would increase the thickness of vaginal cells at any given time in the menstrual cycle.

4.   Estrogen increases the risk by stimulating the liver to produce more of the substances that it normally makes to promote clotting.

5.   Experts disagree about whether extra estrogen increases the risk of breast cancer.

6.   If estrogen did increase the risk of ovarian cancer, researchers do not know how.

7.   Other recent randomized studies with women who already had heart disease found that estrogen increased the risk of subsequent heart attacks and strokes.

8.   There are studies that find estrogen taken alone increases the risk of uterine cancer, but estrogen taken with progestin does not.

9.   Women are believed to be more prone because the feminine hormone estrogen increases the concentration of cholesterol in the bile, and most gallstones are made of cholesterol.

10.   The hormone estrogen may increase the risk of breast cancer for some older women, a new study says.