This condition is increasing your cancer risk.
Menopause is causing a lot of symptoms. Among the most common are hot flashes and vaginal dryness. To ease the symptoms, your physician may prescribe you post-menopausal hormones, also known as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Estrogen and progesterone are among the most often prescribed hormones. High estrogen exposure to the breast cells is a risk factor of developing breast cancer, and thus, the longer the HRT lasts, the higher your risk of breast cancer will be.
If you stopped taking them less than three years ago, you have a lower risk than women who hadn't stopped, but your overall risk is still higher than women who never had received HRT.
If you stopped taking them more than three years ago, your risk of breast cancer returns to that of the general population, so you are no longer at increased risk.
This condition is decreasing your cancer risk.
Post-menopausal hormones often contain estrogen, which can increase your risk of breast cancer.
Because you have never taken post-menopausal hormones, you are at a decreased risk of developing breast cancer.