Docs misleading women on therapy risk?

(WXYZ) - Older women have been looking to hormone replacement therapy for decades to feel better and fight the effects of menopause. But the FDA and most doctors will tell you that the therapy comes with risks, like a higher chance of cancer or stroke.

But as we showed you in our latest investigation, HRC Medical has been telling patients just the opposite.

In Tennessee, where HRC Medical is based, the Attorney General there slapped the company with a civil lawsuit, saying its not telling clients the whole story about serious possible side effects of their treatments: things like heart disease, breast cancer and dementia.

Nobodys done a test on the particular cocktail of hormones that they were inserting into people, said Jeff Hill, a senior lawyer for the Tennessee Attorney Generals office.

That complaint has nearly crippled the company, so here in Michigan their clinics were recently sold to Legacy Medical, a different company providing the same kinds of therapy. Theyre using some of the same doctors and staff, but 7 Action News wanted to see if theyre making the same statements the FDA says are dangerous.

We sent an undercover producer inside its Wixom clinic. Right off the bat, she was told that more traditional synthetic therapy was what she needed to worry about. But Legacys "bioidentical" natural therapy, said the saleswoman, would never cause cancer.

Its all natural, its all natural, she said.

So theres no evidence that the natural causes (cancer?), asked the Channel 7 producer.

No. Synthetics do, responded the saleswoman.

That sales pitch troubles the attorney general in Tennessee, whose lawsuit could ultimately shut HRC down.

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Docs misleading women on therapy risk?