If you want relief from your symptoms of menopause, but dont want to risk your health with a dangerous treatment, what should you do? As you probably have heard, hormone replacement therapy has been linked with certain cancers, heart problems, strokes, and other health problems. In fact in a study made by the Women’s Health Initiative, women who took a mix of estrogen and progesterone hormones were 71% more likely to contract lung cancer than those who were taking a placebo.