Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.

On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based

information and advice about both the perimenopause and the

menopause. So today, by popular request, I have back with me, Professor Isaac Moniando,

who is very inspirational, incredibly clever and very kind to give up his time yet again for the

podcast. And today we thought we would talk about breast cancer and HRT because this comes up all

the time. This is the main reason why women are often scared of taking HRT and also healthcare

professionals are scared of prescribing it. So welcome again, Isaac,

and thank you for joining me. Thank you, Lois. Thank you. I do think this is one of the

especially important topics for us to discuss because it's probably one of the reasons or the most

important and the most common reason why women either choose not to take HRT or come off of it.

And there's a lot of information out there that is either completely wrong or very misleading

or certainly very frightening to a lot of women. I think it is important to try and put

things into perspective and address the

issue of whether HRT, pace, say, increases the risk of breast cancer or not.

And it is probably the biggest reason I think some people are worried about other things,

but it is the biggest reason that people are worried

and the reason that people often refuse to be given HART.

Now, if we just start at the beginning, really, HART is just three letters, isn't it,

hormone replacement therapy?

And there are different types, there are different doses.

And lots of people think the risks of HRT are the same regardless.

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