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How best to treat the menopause?

Doctors should be more prepared to discuss hormone replacement therapy as a possible treatment for the menopause, England's health watchdog has said.
NICE urged doctors and patients to look again at potential risks and benefits of HRT, which some studies have linked to cancer and heart disease.
It did not say more women should use HRT, but said it could be "effective".
The health body said its report aimed to "stop women suffering in silence" from the symptoms of menopause.
In its first official guidance on the subject, NICE did not go as far as to encourage more women to use HRT but said it should not be immediately dismissed.
Victoria Derbyshire spoke to Dr Melanie Davies, consultant gynecologist at University College London Hospital who worked on the new guidelines and three women who have gone through the menopause - Nia Fisher, Sujata Barot and Diane Danzebrink.

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