BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - For years, many providers stopped using hormone replacement therapy for menopause after a 2002 study showed there was a risk of developing cancer. Now local doctors say the narrative is changing.

Dr. Gunjan Raina, a concierge physician with Baton Rouge General, has been practicing in Baton Rouge for about eight years but only recently began incorporating hormone therapy in her patients’ treatment plans.

“These patients would keep coming to me, and we weren’t able to solve all their problems. We would send them to multiple specialists. And they would go see the specialist, and the specialist would try their best to help them. But until they came back and I got educated in menopause and perimenopausal health care, I started putting the pieces together,” Raina said

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