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>>> DR. DAVID MARGILETH: Many of the women we see now, who are younger, often have more
aggressive tumors and almost always need some type of chemotherapy. Many of the chemotherapies
that we use will cause at least temporarily, or possibly permanent, ovarian suppression.
If it’s permanent, what that means is that that patient has in a sense been pushed
into an early menopause, and their periods never will return with all the menopausal
symptoms that that involves. The most important being hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness,
possibility difficult intercourse, possibly less *** desire, and those are all issues
that for the short-term, and obviously for the long-term, can become life-altering events.
It’s been very difficult to come up with treatments to solve those problems since the
magical therapy would be to give estrogen, which has been shown not to be a reasonable
thing to do, certainly, shortly after breast cancer therapy, especially in women whose
tumors are hormone receptor-positive. So that becomes a major issue and one which may
dominate the late complications of the chemotherapy, even though they may get through the chemotherapy
per se ‘reasonably well’. Hi, I am Dr. Jay Harness and I want to share
with you important information that I believe that every newly diagnosed patient with breast
cancer needs to know.
Susan Denver: I am a breast cancer survivor.
Katherine Stockton: I am a breast cancer survivor.
Coree: I am a breast cancer survivor.
Susan Denver: And I want every woman to know…
Katherine Stockton: …about personalized breast cancer treatment…
Coree: A test that helps guide a woman and her doctor…
Katherine Stockton: …to the best treatment options for her.
Susan Denver: Pass it on!