Dr. Elizabeth Comen

And this happened three times across the country.

I'm sure.

I'm sure I have the same experience left and right when we have to change that.

We do.

Absolutely.

And that goes all the way back to our medical education where we're not just showing anatomy on male forms, but, you know, sometimes you'll learn about the gastrointestinal system in a female body or the lungs or the heart.

It's not just looking at a uterus as the only time you're seeing a female form.

We are not just our boobs and our tubes.

If they're in Kansas or Ohio or... First of all, vaginal estrogen is safe.

We have lots of studies that show this.

It can help tremendously with some of the pain and recurrent urinary tract infections that we see with our patients.

We do have non-hormonal treatments for our...

for hot flashes that many women can pursue and talk to their doctor about.

We have ways to address bone health.

And then, you know, it is somewhat controversial, but for those women who have a very distant history of breast cancer, they're 20, 30 years out, they want to have a conversation with their doctor about the risks, potential benefits, studies that we could get involved in.

Because one of the things I really want to study is for triple negative breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has no relationship to estrogen.

Why can we not give physiologic hormone back to those patients?

Why do you think those studies

Because no one has cared.

No one has cared, right?