What every woman needs to know about HRT and breast cancer
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Professor Michael Baum is a world expert on breast cancer, while his daughter Katie Taylor is the founder of the menopause support group and website the Latte Lounge. Together they separate fact from fiction about HRT and breast cancer, look at the issue of female pain, as well as Katie’s menopause story and experience of hysterectomy. Plus, what’s going on with teenage hormones, 80's workout gear and hot men!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to Postcards from Mid Life. |
| 0:08.4 | The show where we help you through the Mid Life, the Menopause, motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:14.0 | In today's episode we're going to be talking about what exactly is going on with your child's |
| 0:20.5 | hormones when they reach puberty and understanding why oh why it is |
| 0:24.8 | that they turn from these scrumptious edible little ones into smelly non-communicative |
| 0:29.2 | airheads seemingly overnight, plus what you can do to help them through this tsunami. |
| 0:35.0 | And we'll also be discussing an issue that doesn't get talked about nearly enough, |
| 0:38.0 | female pain, something women suffer an awful lot of during their childbearing and perimenopausal years |
| 0:44.5 | and will be tackling the link between cancer and HRT. |
| 0:48.2 | Yes, I think there's a huge disparity between the way men's and women's pain is managed. |
| 0:54.0 | It's even described as a feminist issue. |
| 0:56.6 | And we're going to be talking to Katie Taylor, |
| 0:59.1 | founder of L'Artie lounge website |
| 1:00.8 | about her experience of having had 10 operations in her lifetime as well as |
| 1:04.7 | her father Professor Michael Baum who has pioneered cancer treatments for breast |
| 1:09.3 | cancer sufferers. First though, Trish, tell the listeners about what you've been doing this week, which I don't |
| 1:18.3 | know whether it's politically incorrect. |
| 1:20.9 | Okay, so I had a little evening this week where I ended up watching the TV programs |
| 1:26.2 | that my son and my husband quite often watched together, which I'm just not interested |
| 1:30.4 | in because it's like about things like motorbikes and airplanes and all of that stuff. |
| 1:34.4 | Yes, yes. And then I, yes, yes. |
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