What's going on: Study links hormone therapy to more breast cancer deaths

Also: CIA admits flubs in handling double agent in Afghanistan.

Charles Dharapak / The Associated PressThe White House is bathed in pink light in recognition of October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Washington.

From Reuters:

Women who took hormone replacement pills had more advanced breast cancers and were more likely to die from them than women who took a dummy pill, raising new concerns about the commonly prescribed drugs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is the first to report more breast cancer deaths among women taking hormone replacement therapy.

And it contradicts prior studies that suggest women taking the drugs had less aggressive, easier-to-treat breast cancers.

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