Medicine's Rachel Pope discusses safety of earlier hormone therapy

CWRU study: Earlier hormone therapy for menopause is safe and prevents symptoms

ideastream: Rachel Pope, associate professor of urology at the School of Medicine, discussed her study into whether it could be safe—or even beneficial—to start treatment even earlier for perimenopause patients. “Theoretically, I thought, and many of my colleagues think, that if you start earlier than that first 10 years [after menopause], you should have maybe even decreased risks, or certainly not higher risks,” said Pople.