Breast cancer treatment and HRT | The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Content advisory: this podcast contains themes of mental health and suicide.
Dr Louise is joined by her patient Trudie Jennings in this episode to talk about the complexities around HRT during and after treatment for breast cancer.
Trudie describes how she started HRT to successfully manage crippling anxiety and other menopause symptoms and a few months later she was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer.
NICE guidance states women should stop taking systemic HRT if they are diagnosed with breast cancer. However, after careful discussion with her cancer doctor and nurse, Trudie decided to continue with HRT during her treatment as, for her, the menopause symptoms were more challenging than her cancer treatment.
Trudie and Dr Louise discuss shared decision making and informed consent, and how important it is for women with and after breast cancer to be fully informed about potential risks, benefits and uncertainties about HRT following a breast cancer diagnosis so they can make the best decision that is right for them.
Trudie’s three tips for women who have had breast cancer and are struggling with their menopause:
1. Know that as a patient you do have choices about whether to start or continue HRT after breast cancer treatment.
2. Speak to your doctors and nurses and be informed so that you can make the right, personalised, decision for yourself. Trudie has found her healthcare professionals in cancer care open and helpful when discussing her need for HRT.
3. You know your own body best, so listen to your body to get the treatment that will be best support you.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Trudie. Blessings to you.
Thanks for sharing your story Trudie. It was very useful information.
So incredibly affirming. I know that if I was ever diagnosed with breast cancer, I would not go off of HRT. And would most likely find someone doing Testosterone pellets at the site of the tumor like Dr. Rebecca Glaser.
@normapenetta5940
20 күн бұрын
How would you not go off HRT? Are you a doctor? No one will prescribe HRT to me since I had ER/PR+ breast cancer. Very low grade and I had a mastectomy. But I can’t get HRT.
I really enjoyed this different perspective. You don’t mention what the receptors were ( the full diagnosis) Did Trudie have positive hormone receptors at all? I’m asking as I’ve just been diagnosed with triple positive so estrogen progesterone and HER2 positive. This is why I ask.
@JayneMoss
3 ай бұрын
It will have been oestrogen positive as she’s on tamoxifen which is only give for this type.
May I ask, if you did take the vaccine?
@GiGi-fd6om
7 ай бұрын
Allow me to inject some critical thinking here. The Covid vaccine has absolutely nothing to do with women coming of age and finally losing their egg production. Every female since the beginning of time if she lives long enough, will go into menopause, before the vaccine and after. Trudi suffered from loss of estradiol. About 10% of women claim not to notice any difference and the rest have mild to severe symptoms. Our mothers, grandmothers, and all who came before us experienced the same thing. Women not too many decades ago, where institutionalized for how bad their menopause made their brain functioning. The highest rate of suicide for women is during the menopause transition. The vaccine has nothing to do with Trudi's situation!