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Is it safe to take medroxyprogesterone if i have an extremely large family history of breast cancer? it was prescribed for my endometriosis.
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Ok: Progesterone is not generally associated with increasing cancer risk.Estrogen is more likely to promote those issues
Answered 6/30/2014
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