S2 Ep92: The Estrogen and Cancer Conundrum

                          Uterine? Ovarian? Cervical? Lung? Breast? Colon?

Hormone therapy really needs a PR firm. Most people think it is right up there with cigarettes and asbestos as something that will more likely than not, give you not only breast cancer, but also other life-threatening cancers. In this episode, I am going to set the record straight and tell you the facts when it comes to using systemic estrogen (both birth control pills and menopause hormone therapy) and your risk of getting ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer and the three most common non-gynecologic cancers. If you already have one of those kinds of cancers, I’m going to give you the latest data on when it is OK to take estrogen, and when is not OK to take estrogen. 

In response to listener questions, I discuss if estrogen therapy is associated with: 

Uterine Cancer

Ovarian Cancer

Women with a BRCA mutation

Cervical Cancer

Vulvar Cancer

Vaginal Cancer

Tubal Cancer

Lung Cancer

Breast Cancer

Colo-rectal Cancer

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Other episodes of interest:

Episode 28: The BEST approach for BREAST Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction with Dr. Lisa Larkin

Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?

Episode 35 Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 

Episode 52 Yes, You CAN Reduce Your Cancer Risk By 33% with Selene Yaeger 

Episode 57 Uterine Cancer: Reducing Your Risk

Episode 65- The Dilemma of Menopause and Breast Cancer with Dr. Corrine Menn

Episode 67- How Long Can you Safely Take Hormone Therapy?

Episode 80 When Progesterone is a Problem 

Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

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Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever

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