Ovary keepers of Gen X, are we doing HRT?

HRT and a series of mishaps killed my mom, so hard no. She was diagnosed with estrogen receptive breast cancer about 15 months after starting HRT. Before she was diagnosed, I read a preliminary study that suggested a link with HRT and told her. She stopped the HRT, and her doctor got miffed at her for stopping. Then she was diagnosed and he later told her that she was right to stop after hearing more about estrogen receptive breast cancer and HRT. In fact the study they were doing on it was halted and the recommeded to all of the women in the study to immediately stop HRT. That said, this was 25 years ago. Technology might be better with HRT, I don't know, but after what happened to my mom, I wouldn't advise anyone to do it. I convinced my wife not to. My mom, got through the breast cancer, chemo, radiation, and did stem cell replcement (which turned out to be totally bogus). She was declared cancer free and told that she did not need to be tested for 5 years after testing negative 8 years straight. about 2.5 years after this declaration, she was diagnosed with rare stage IV small cell lung cancer and given about 18 months to live. She managed to live about 3 years. None of the chemo worked and the doctors were baffled where it came from or what to do about any kind of treatment. She did some radiation that was considered pallative care. My suspicion is that the stem cell replacement therapee, which I mentioned turned out to be bogus, was responsible. She had some lung hemoraging during and after the stem cell replacement, one of the doctors that was assigned, told my dad that he was very concerned that she might not make it. She did, but she had lung/breathing issues afterward for several months. She was declared free of cancer about 4 years or 5 years after the stem cell replacement, so it isn't like it was an immediate "ah-ha" link! The doctor that came up with the stem cell replacement treatment apparently filed fradulant results and falsified research data, this is what her doctor told her when she was fighting the lung cancer. She didn't link it to the stem cell replacement, but I sure feel like it was the cause. Anyway YMMV.