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 with me I have someone back by popular demand actually. He's already been on the podcast

before and some of you might have listened to him but I have the pleasure of introducing or reintroducing to you, Dr Tony Branson,

who is a consultant clinical oncologist who works with women who've had breast cancer in the northeast.

So welcome, Tony, today.

Thank you.

So we first met several years ago now because I saw a lady in my clinic who had had breast

cancer and I think she might have been on Tamoxifen, one of the treatments after having breast

cancer.

And she told me that her cancer doctor was quite happy that she took HRT and she'd come down to see me for some advice. So I got

that cancer doctor's name and got a hold of him and you're here in front of me now and doing this

podcast and it was really enlightening talking to you actually for lots of reasons. But I love the way that your patient is in the

centre of everything you do, which for many of you that have heard me talk before is certainly

the way that I practice as medicine, and indeed most clinicians do really, but you're heavily

experienced and really I just wanted to spend the next half an hour or so talking

really about people who've had breast cancer and how difficult it can be sometimes or often

when they're menopausal and have very limited options often.

Yes, I mean the mutual patient we in fact, had a very, very low

risk pre-invasive cancer and was actually referred to me merely to have some radiotherapy. And

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