213. You Are More Than Just Your Breast Cancer - Hormones and Breast Cancer

You Are More Than Just Your Breast Cancer - Hormones and Breast Cancer

 

Dr. Corinne Menn is a board certified
OBGYN and North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner.
She has a special interest in areas often
neglected in women's health: Perimenopause and menopause, the unique needs of
female cancer survivors and those at high risk for breast cancer. 

 

Dr. Menn tells us her story of
breast cancer dx at age 28, going through menopause three times and is now a
pro-hormone educator.

 

Dr. Menn discusses taking
systemic hormones and her journey and how it has changed her life.

 

Why are doctors and patients so afraid of hormones?

 

Doctors are so risk adverse – but let’s talk about the risks of
not treating menopause.

 

The myth that estrogen causes cancer.

 

How Tamoxifen works.

 

Breast cancer nomenclature – estrogen positive – this doesn’t mean
estrogen caused the cancer – we clarify.

 

The nuance of being overweight and risk of breast cancer.

 

The number one killer of women with history of breast cancer is
heart disease.

 

Safety of systemic hormone replacement therapy in breast cancer
survivors

Article in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment · January 2022 –
Dr Bluming

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"Twenty-five studies of HRT after a breast cancer diagnosis,
published between 1980 and 2013, are discussed, as are the 20 reviews of those
studies published between 1994 and 2021. Only 1 of the 25 studies, the HABITS
trial, demonstrated an increased risk of recurrence, which was limited to local
or contralateral, and not distant, recurrence. None of the studies, including
HABITS, reported increased breast cancer mortality associated with HRT. Even in
the HABITS trial, the absolute increase in the number of women who had a
recurrence (localized only) associated with HRT administration was 22. It is on
the basis of these 22 patients that HRT, with its demonstrated benefits for so
many aspects of women's health, is being denied to millions of breast cancer
survivors around the world."

 

The problem with the HABITS trial.

 

Why are we scaring women so much about breast cancer?

 

Who is the right breast cancer survivor to start hormones? A good
candidate?

 

Are we overtreating with aromatase inhibitors?



Podcast partnership today: Always Discreet

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Bluming AZ. Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer:
It Is Time. Cancer J. 2022 May-Jun 01;28(3):183-190.

 

Young Survival Coalition
https://youngsurvival.org/

 

Vaginal Estrogen
for people with a history of breast cancer: https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/clinical-consensus/articles/2021/12/treatment-of-urogenital-symptoms-in-individuals-with-a-history-of-estrogen-dependent-breast-cancer

 

Dr. Menn is an Alloy Health Medical Advisor and Prescriber
www.myalloy.com

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